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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND HSHERIES 



SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY 



GULF OF MEXICO AND THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF 



HEARING ON: DUAL USE OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY 



AUGUST 4, 1993 



QUESTIONS FOR THE RECORD TO DR. ERIC O. HARTWIG 



Question 2. In terms of ocean models and data, what are the security concerns? 

 Why are certain data not released or released after a waiting period? 

 Answer; Classification of models and data and waiting periods are not set by 

 organizations such as ONR, we follow security guidelines established for classified 

 material. There are some obvious reasons for security concerns. For example we 

 may not want the location of a platform taking data to be known, therefore the data 

 is held for a period then released. This protects the operation and the people 

 involved. In other cases, the release of the data/model would provide a potential 

 adversary the information they need to counter our capability or enable them to 

 rapidly and/or inexpensively develop the same capability, a capabUity the U.S. may 

 have spent millions or billions to develop. Questions on specific data sets would 

 have to be responded to by the activity having security responsibility for that data. 



UNCLASSIFIED 



