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instruments, techniques, and reportino; systems meeting specifications 

 which we would put out from the Hydrographic OiRce, which they 

 have now mider publication 607, for all oceanographic and research 

 data we needed. 



Mr. Pelly. This is beginning to take shape now and I see what you 

 mean. In other words, the specifications would be sent out and stand- 

 ards established from one spot and in each locality the adjustments of 

 the various instruments would meet those specifications? 



Admiral Hayward. Yes, sir. 



The Bureau of Standards does the same thing with many things. 

 They do not send all tlie instruments into the Bureau of Standards 

 but they have calibration methods and specifications to make measure- 

 ments. 



Mr. Pelly. So what you actually suggest is that rather than have 

 the Department of Commerce send out specifications to the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, that all agencies of Government centralize and have 

 a consolidation of their specifications and everybody use the same 

 ones ? 



Admiral Hayward. Yes; standardize measurements. That is ac- 

 tually what we would do. 



Mr. Pelly. That is all, Mr. Cliairman. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Thank you very much. 



Does counsel have further questions !* 



Mr. Drewry. Admiral, am I right that there is a standard main- 

 tained in Copenhagen from which salinity is measured? Are you 

 familiar with that? I understood there is a certain quantity of water 

 that is supposed to be the basic standard of purity against which salin- 

 ity is measured. 



Admiral Hayvvard. Yes, sir; there is a standard. The answer to 

 that question, first, is "Yes." As the salinity varies people measure 

 it, and that is the point I was making. 



Mr. Drewry. Are there standards in other things and are they scat- 

 tered all over the world? 



Admiral Hayward. There are other standards. The real difficulty 

 has been in the measurements of these. You can set your standards 

 and specifications, but if the man measures it, depending on what 

 instruments, the results he gets can be way off, depending on where 

 the measurements are taken. It is a problem of instrumentation 

 rather than the setting of the standards. 



Mr. DiNGELL. I have been very much concerned throughout your 

 testimony here this morning that possibly the Navy proposes to con- 

 trol this whole Data Center and to organize and operate it as an 

 extension of the Hydrographic Office, and in effect use this as a device 

 to increase the appropriations and the authority of the Hydrographic 

 Office without achieving any real coordination or cooperation with the 

 other agencies participating in it. 



Is that a correct inference ? 



Admiral Haysvard. No, sir ; it is not. We are the greatest users of 

 this information. We need this information. As an example, by 

 putting computers in we arc budgeting the appropriation before Con- 

 gress now. There is money in our budget now for the computere. 



It just made good sense to these other people that since we had 70 

 percent of the data there they would go along with us. There has 

 not been any feeling we were trying to build up the appropriation. 



