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Fleet Coordinating Committee; the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) 

 which provides a means for the exchange of scientists and engineers 

 among federal agencies and with non-federal organizations; the Strategic 

 Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); the 

 Environmental Task Force (ETF); the existing relationship under which the 

 Oceanographer of the Navy serves as the Navy Deputy to the Administrator 

 to NOAA; and a recent MOD between NSF and ONR to cooperate in S&T. 



Truly cooperative programs are based on partnerships in which all 

 partners gain from the effort. In most cases this gain is through mutual 

 leverage of the investments made by the partners. This is particularly 

 true in mounting at-sea experiments. Major at-sea field programs are 

 incredibly expensive, and often no single organization has all the required 

 talent, platform access, funding or data reduction and analysis capability 

 to ensure a successful experiment. Our best cooperative efforts come 

 from rigorous, joint planning with plenty of lead time, followed by 

 execution in carefully scheduled, discrete segments over the life of the 

 project. This allows the cooperating groups to bring all their requirements 

 and assets to the table, develop the best plan "at the time" and then allow 

 for change as experience is gained or circumstances change. 



COOPERATIVE DUAL USE OPPORTUNITIES 



The challenge to predict ocean behavior provides significant 

 opportunities for cooperative dual use efforts. I believe the most 

 significant of these are in three interrelated areas: 



- Remote sensing from space, air and in the water; 

 • Ocean and marine atmospheric modeling, and 



- Environmental quality, 



EXAMPLES OF OPPORTUNITIES 



REMOTE SENSING 



A significant Navy S&T capability is remote sensing from aircraft 

 and space, integrated with in-water-based sensors. The Navy S&T 

 community has developed, put in place, and used active and passive 

 acoustical, optical and radar remote sensors to measure a variety of 

 parameters in a variety of ways to many different time and space 



