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You need not only "now casting" where you will be "now," so if 

 you are going to launch an aircraft you know what the conditions 

 are; but you must also be able to forecast the near future. 



There is a system which I find very interesting, called NEONS, 

 which is a Navy environmental operational forecasting system. 

 This is a data base management system that was a commercial 

 product that NRL picked up out in Monterey under sponsorship 

 from the Oceanographer of the Navy. By not reinventing the 

 wheel, NRL used that technology, enhanced it for the capability 

 that the Navy needed, transitioned it to the Navy so the Navy is 

 now using it, and now has transitioned it to NOAA. It is now in all 

 three NOAA global change program sites. 



So here is an example of a technology that came out of commer- 

 cial, was invested in and enhanced by DOD, and then provided by 

 the Navy to NOAA and the civilian sector because it is a very good 

 product. 



There is also, at this point, untapped capability, I think, in the 

 Navy's ocean modeling capability. The Navy has a requirement to 

 model the ocean. I think there is a vast pool of capability existing 

 in the Navy's S&T community (Science and Technology communi- 

 ty), to provide benefit in a dual use way to other agencies and to 

 the civilian community. 



Overall, I would like to leave the impression with you that the 

 S&T community of the Navy has long been involved in transferring 

 technology to many agencies, out to the academic community; and 

 I think it has been appreciated. It has been both ways. When we 

 have done something in the Navy that has been of benefit to other 

 agencies, we have gotten benefit back. Data generated by NOAA 

 goes directly back to the Navy. So any kind of capability we gener- 

 ate comes back to us, also. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Ortiz. Thank you. 



[The prepared statement of Dr. Hartwig can be found at the end 

 of the hearing.] 



STATEMENT OF DR. KENNETH T. DAUGHERTY, DEPUTY 

 DIRECTOR, DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY 



Dr. Daugherty. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the 

 Committee. I am happy to be here representing the Defense Map- 

 ping Agency, or DMA, to talk to you about dual use of technology, 

 assets and programs. 



DMA was established in 1972 out of the Mapping, Charting and 

 Geodesy elements, or MC&G, of the services. We were designated 

 as a Combat Support Agency under the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 

 1986. We provide, under our normal charter, the mapping, charting 

 and geodesy for the Department of Defense and other Federal 

 agencies, generally outside the United States and its territorial 

 waters. 



We also have a statutory responsibility under Title 10 to provide 

 nautical charts for public sale worldwide to support the maritime 

 industry of this country. We coordinate the kinds of products and 

 services we provide with the military departments, and we get our 

 specific requirements for the things we must produce from the Uni- 



