tive Director of the Strategic Environmental Research and Devel- 

 opment Program. 



I am pleased to be here today to present testimony on the use of 

 dual use defense technology for oceanographic research. 



I would like to start out by stating that I am not an oceanogra- 

 pher, but I would like to speak to you today primarily in my capac- 

 ity as the Executive Director of the Strategic Environmental R&D 

 Program, also known as SERDP. SERDP is a congressionally-di- 

 rected program which focuses Department of Defense research 

 assets toward solving environmental issues. 



The primary purpose of SERDP is to address the environmental 

 matters of concern to the DOD and DOE through basic and applied 

 research to meet the defense environmental obligations. However, 

 one of SERDP's additional purposes is to apply DOD technology to 

 nonmilitary environmental issues. 



SERDP is also mandated to identify and transfer research tech- 

 nology information and data developed by both DOE and DOD to 

 Federal agencies. State governments and private organizations. It 

 is through this Congressional direction that SERDP provides the 

 vehicle for transfer of dual use technologies with particular empha- 

 sis on environmental issues. 



Defense technology will greatly enhance this country's ability to 

 collect data and improve our understanding of the oceans, as Dr. 

 Baker has just alluded to. 



The environmental ocean science is a discipline that tends to be 

 data starved. A variety of classified sensors and data sets developed 

 by the DOD and the intelligence community offer the prospect of 

 greatly expanding the boundaries of ocean science. 



I would like to present some examples of the SERDP efforts that 

 are building on national defense technology as described by Dr. 

 Baker and to be further enhanced by both Dr. Winokur and Dr. 

 Hartwig. 



For example, the Navy has the extensive acoustic surveillance 

 system, the lUSS, which has historically been used, as Dr. Baker 

 described, for detection of vessels and submarines in ocean activi- 

 ties. 



During the past year, starting in November of 1992, the Navy 

 initiated a test of the sound surveillance system, the SOSUS, to try 

 to track whales. I think this is an example of what can be revealed. 

 The results of that six months of tests were remarkable, in fact 

 outstanding, totally changing our perspective of the transport, mi- 

 gration depth, population, and activities of endangered whale spe- 

 cies in the Atlantic, really revolutionary in terms of our under- 

 standing. 



There are numerous other applications. Dr. Baker talked about a 

 few in terms of monitoring ships and as a key to monitoring illegal 

 driftnet fishing. The key that I talked about for understanding 

 whales in the ocean, the same eyes and ears can be used to provide 

 a greater understanding of the seismic activity that takes place 

 there. 



Previously we had very few, a very limited capability in terms of 

 land-based seismic detectors to really monitor what was going on, 

 on the ocean floor. 



