IVIilitary Programs 



numerous Navy laboratories and contracts with private institutions, uni- 

 versities, and other contractors, and cooperating with other Government 

 agencies such as the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 



The Ocean Engineering and Development Program is headed by the 

 Chief of Naval Development in his capacity as Assistant Oceanographer 

 of the Navy for Ocean Engineering with responsibility for undersea search, 

 rescue, salvage, and construction. Inherent in this program is the neces- 

 sary development effort required to insure that the best materials, tools, 

 vehicles, habitats, and equipment are available for use in the marine 

 environment. These programs are carried out in in-house laboratories and 

 by contract to institutions and to the industrial community. Much of this 

 entire program directly supports the efforts of the Supervisor of Salvage, who 

 fulfills the Navy's broad responsibilities for both military and commercial 

 salvage. 



The Oceanographic Operations Program involves direct support of both 

 naval operating forces and navigators generally through the collection of 

 environmental data by specially equipped ships, submarines, aircraft, and 

 buoys, as well as other devices. The transformation of these data into useful 

 products for Navy use, for other national programs, and, in some cases, 

 for international distribution, is a responsibility of the Oceanographer of the 

 Navy. The public obtains scientific and technical information procured, 

 processed, and disseminated by the Naval Oceanographic Office through 

 its charts and publications, its library and public information services, its 

 field offices, and the National Oceanographic Data Center. 



Outside the Naval Oceanographic Program, the Navy has numerous 

 other marine science responsibilities — for example, exchanges of information 

 with foreign almanac offices; provision of precise time and time interval 

 capabilities of all military departments; and logistic support of Antarctic 

 programs. 



The Fiscal Year 1970 Budget 



Well over one-half of the Federal marine science program is sponsored 

 by the Navy. Funds proposed for the marine science components of the 

 military programs, categorized in this Report as programs for national secu- 

 rity, amount to $143 million for FY 1970, about 27 percent of the total 

 marine science budget.^ This represents a 12 percent increase over FY 1969, 



^ All Navy programs are required for national security, but those that benefit the 

 National Marine Science Program in other ways as well are categorized in tables of 

 Appendix A and elsewhere in this Report under other headings. 



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