Additional information on agency programs and budgets in the 

 areas of international cooperation and collaboration, living 

 resources, transportation, and coastal zone management will be 

 found in the appendices. 



Supporting Programs 



We turn next in this report from programs directly associated with 

 major national goals to some of those that provide essential support 

 for the primary programs. One of these is common to virtually all 

 marine activities, whether military or civilian, whether on the high 

 seas or in the coastal zone, whether aimed at strengthening the 

 economy or preserving the amenities: adequate description and 

 prediction of the environment in which these activities take place. 

 Observation and forecasting of the impact of the environment upon 

 man's activities, as well as of man's activities upon the environ- 

 ment, are major elements of the Federal Ocean Program. Mapping, 

 charting, and related data gathering activities in support of 

 navigation, marine resource development, coastal zone 

 management, naval operations, pollution studies, and the like 

 continue to constitute a major portion of the overall program. These 

 activities are also showing continuing needs for improved 

 environmental forecasts, such as those provided by marine weather 

 services. An increase in total funding and some shifts in relative 

 priorities within the overall environmental description and 

 prediction program is proposed for FY '74. An increase in nautical 

 charting and coastal mapping budget proposals is accompanied by a 

 decrease in geophysical mapping. Overall fiscal constraints require 

 reduction or suspension of some of the lower priority programs. 



Another major, multi-faceted supporting program is the develop- 

 ment of the technology required to carry out primary programs. This 

 includes, as part of the Federal Ocean Program, the development of 

 satellite- or aircraft-borne remote sensing systems for gathering 

 ocean-related data, as well as buoy-based data gathering systems. 

 Technological developments are required for a wide variety of 

 single- and multi-purpose applications. This report features 

 developments in undersea technology for such applications as 

 navigation, materials, construction, power sources, platforms, 

 communications and control, salvage, and safety. An effort to 

 provide improved manned and unmanned capabilities to perform 

 research and other useful work at both diver depths and in the deep 

 oceans is also being maintained. There have also been significant 

 developments in other areas of marine technology, such as control of 

 oily bilge-water discharge and other pollution from ships. 



Increasing needs for atmospheric and oceanographic 

 environmental information are stimulating development and use of 

 remote sensing from satellites. The satellite systems development 

 program, a major cooperative effort of the National Aeronautics and 



