(2) Response to an increasing number of requests for data and 

 information (with reimbursable requests up 41 percent over fiscal year 

 1968, exchange services up 116 percent, and nonreimbursable requests 

 up 20 percent) . Table X-3 summarizes the sources of requests; 



Table X-3 — Sources of Requests ' — National Oceanographic Data Center, 



Fiscal Year 1969 



Percent 



Federal and State Governments 32 



Industry 28 



Universities 24 



General public 9 



Foreign requests 7 



Total 100 



> Total 2,030 requests. 



Collection and processing of oceanographic data are rapidly becoming automated. 

 Shown above is the automated data acquisition center for the Shipboard Survey 

 System in the U.S. Navy survey ship Silas Bent. The primary respository for oceano- 

 graphic data is the National Oceanographic Data Center. Quality control, informa- 

 tion storage and retrieval and analysis are performed by the Center's newly installed 

 computer system. 



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