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Table 18. — Future research and operating costs proposed for Federal sponsorship 



by NASCO, by agency • 



[In millions of dollars] 



1 Including direct research and ship operating costs, new laboratory facilities. 

 Source: N.\SCO Report, ch. 1, tables 1, 5, 11. 



Table 19. — Future capital requirements for new ships and vehicles, as proposed for 

 Federal sponsorship by NASCO, by agency^ 



[In millions of dollars] 



1 Costs of new laboratory facDities, while a capital expenditure, could not be separated from operatmg 

 costs, by sponsoring agency; they are thus included in table 18. 



2 Costs of rehabilitation of research ships Chain, Snatch, and Gibbs, and bathvscaph Trieste had not been 

 Included in NASCO report. Thus, all capital requirements proposed by N-A.SCO for the next 10 years are 

 based on a zero expenditure for ships m fiscal 1958. 



Source: NASCO Report, ch. 1, tables 5 and 11. 



In this regard incidentall.y, it is of particular importance to note by 

 comparing 1958 and 1969 figures in Table 18 that, whereas in fiscal 

 1958 direct costs of research were about equally split between military 

 and nonmihtary activities, the NASCO proposal expects that by 1970 

 naval expenditures -will have increased by a factor of about 2.5, 

 whereas nonmilitary expenditures will have increased by a factor of 4. 

 The civilian segment of a national program is thus visualized as 

 being larger than the military, somewhat in contrast to the present 

 implications for funding. At the same time, it should be recalled 

 that this program of research does not include "military oceanog- 

 raphy," according to definitions of Section V. Prograiiis in mili- 

 tary oceanography, which are estimated for fiscal 1961 to be at a 

 level of $24 million, may reflect short-term rather than long-term 

 niilitary requirements and may thus undergo expansions and contrac- 

 tions depending upon the immediate needs. These activities, al- 



