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and the various activities being pursued indicate, rightfully so, the great 

 potential of this resource. For sake of clarification, I would like to point out 

 that lUSS is an operational system with resource sponsorship coming under the 

 direction of the Undersea Surveillance Branch in the Office of the Chief of Naval 

 Operations and program management under the direction of the Undersea 

 Surveillance Program Directorate in the Naval Space and Warfare Systems 

 Command. Support for various demonstration projects has been provided by 

 the program sponsor and office, the Strategic Environmental R&D Program, the 

 Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory. In short, this is 

 a success story that everyone wants to be a part of and share in the credit. 

 SUBMARINE ARCTIC SCIENCE CRUISE-93 : The U.S. Navy will conduct the 

 first undersea Arctic science cruise for the U.S. science community at the end 

 of this month. Five civilian scientists will get underway with the USS Pargo 

 (SSN 650) for 1 9 days. Forty-five experiments in the areas of global climate 

 change, geological evolution of the Arctic Ocean basins, movement and 

 changes of the permanent ice pack, and the Arctic Ocean's biological and 

 chemical environment are planned. This exercise, known as Submarine Arctic 

 Science Cruise-93, is the first U.S. nuclear submarine cruise totally dedicated 

 to Arctic science exploration and is a unique cooperation between the U.S. 

 Navy and the U.S. science community. 



In addition to selected Navy interests in the Arctic, we recognize the 

 importance of Arctic science research to national programs. Since the Arctic 

 Science Cruise-93 is primarily a non-military venture, the Navy does not have 

 similar projects planned or funded. The Navy is willing to actively pursue 



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