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Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Oceanography, Gulf of 

 Mexico, and the Outer Continental Shelf Subcommittee, I appreciate the 

 opportunity to provide, on behalf of the Chief of Naval Research, 

 opportunities for cooperation and dual use between the Navy's science and 

 technology (S&T) community and other federal agencies and the civilian 

 community. 



I will provide testimony on the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) 

 work which is all under the Chief of Naval Research (CNR). The CNR has 

 two major components: (1) extramural S&T is sponsored by the Office of 

 Naval Research (ONR); and (2) intramural S&T is conducted by the Naval 

 Research Laboratory (NRL). 



The CNR organization is a manager and executor of oceanographic and 

 maritime atmospheric S&T. Most of these efforts are documented in the 

 archival literature, technical reports, patents, and various technical 

 society symposia. In fact ONR and NRL have a long history of not only being 

 at the forefront of Naval relevant ocean environmental S&T, but also of 

 doing cooperative research with NSF, NASA, NOAA, DOE, USGS and other 

 federal agencies and the civilian community, especially academia. 



The technologies I will discuss below were developed in direct 

 support of Navy operations, systems acquisition, and the protection of 

 naval personnel and their ships, aircraft, submarines and other platforms. 

 It is the ocean environment that makes a navy a navy. This leads to the 

 Navy having a vested, and significant involvement in ocean environmental 

 S&T. 



Given the wide spectrum of Navy operations and the need for rapid 

 Incorporation of new technology sustaining our technological superiority, 

 it is an appropriate requirement for the CNR's ocean and atmosphere S&T 

 effort to be broad scientifically. Dependent on the application, it may be 

 directly coupled with the operational Navy (in many cases it is a system- 

 specific classified coupling), or it may be coupled with the S&T work 

 underway in academia and/or other federal agencies. This approach 

 ensures that the Navy's operational capability can benefit from advances 

 developed in the entire community: extramural and intramural, classified 

 and unclassified. 



