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resolutions. Remote sensing technology provides DoD with a number of 

 unique capabilities required to support a broad spectrum of warfighting 

 missions. 



Navy-sponsored remote sensing is conducted in cooperation and in 

 conjunction with civilian agencies (NASA, NOAA and DOE). For example: 



- NRL's and ONR's efforts in ice remote sensing and forecasting provides 

 enhanced capability to the Navy/NOAA ice forecast center located nearby 

 In Suitland, Maryland. 



- There is presently a major interagency/academia/industry effort called 

 the Environmental Task Force, initiated by then-Senator Gore and then-CIA 

 Director Gates, through which NRL scientists are helping to examine the 

 suitability of using historically classified assets and data to provide 

 environmental information that may be of use to other federal agencies 

 and the civilian community. 



IN WATER BASED REMOTE SENSING 



lUSS/SOSUS System 



A prime example of and opportunity for potential dual use 

 opportunities involves the use of the lUSS (Integrated Undersea 

 Surveillance System) and its SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) array 

 assets to collect acoustic signals of interest to civilian scientists. CNN 

 and other news sources recently reported on NRL's effort to ease access 

 to these data by the civilian scientific community. The SOSUS assets are 

 funded by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) and 

 the Navy Fleet Commanders and operated by operational Navy units. During 

 the Cold War era the data were closely held as they were of fundamental 

 importance to strategic deterrence. With the decline in the strategic 

 threat, the Navy, realizing the potential uses of the data, has taken a 

 number of actions to make it available, under certain security restrictions 

 to civilian researchers. In response to this opportunity, a facility was 

 built at NRL to provide non-DoD users access to many lUSS data. 



Results from this opportunity were recently presented at a news 

 conference. Dr. Chris Clark from Cornell University, who is participating 

 with NRL in this effort, believes access to this technology has 



