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of research of the institute, serving in this capacity for 3 years. In 1954 Dr. 

 Wakelin established his own consulting business in Princeton and has been a 

 consultant on research planning and organization to the Lamp Division, General 

 Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio ; Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. ; 

 American Radiation & Standard Sanitary Corp., New York City ; J. P. Stevens 

 & Co., Inc., New York City ; Frenchtown Porcelain Co., and Star Porcelain 

 Co., of Trenton, N.J. He was one of the founders in 1954 of Chesapeake In- 

 strument Corp., Shadyside, Md., established to conduct research and develop- 

 ment for the Navy in the fields of underwater sound and acuostic devices. He 

 has been a vice president and consultant of that company. During this period 

 he was also a research associate on the staff of Textile Research Institute work- 

 ing on the structure and physical properties of high polymers under a program 

 sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. 



Dr. and Mrs. Wakelin, the former Margaret Cushing Smith of Concord, Mass., 

 have lived in Lawrenceville, N.J., for the past 10 years. They have three boys : 

 James H. Ill and Alan B., who attend the Lawrenceville School, and David, a 

 student at the Princeton Country Day School. The Wakelins have been active 

 with the Cub Scouts and the Parent Teachers Association in Lawrenceville and 

 with the American Red Cross in Princeton. Dr. Wakelin served as President of 

 the Nassau Club of Princeton in 1955 and as a member of the Board of Trustees 

 1956-59 ; he is also vice president of the Fathers' Association of the Lawrenceville 

 School. Mrs. Wakelin is active as a volunteer with the Princeton Hospital 

 where she is now chairman of the hospital aid committee. The family's recrea- 

 tional hobbies include golf and sailing and they spend their summer vacations 

 on Pickering Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. 



Dr. Wakelin is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Physical Society, Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing 

 Machinery, the American Crystallographic Society, Textile Research Institute, 

 the Textile Institute of Great Britain, and is a contributor of scientific papers to 

 the Journal of Applied Physics, the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and 

 Textile Research Journal in the field of high polymer physics. He is a co-author 

 with C. B. Tompkins and W. W. Stifler, Jr., of "High-Speed Computing Devices" 

 published by McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1950. 



Dr. Wakelin was appointed by the President of the United States to the 

 position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development on 

 June 30, 1959. 



Dr. Wakelin. It is a pleasure, Mr. Chairman. 



The Chairman. I reiterate the committee is grateful to the Navy 

 and the Marine Corps for their interest in the welfare of our 

 committee. 



If you have a prepared statement, will you proceed, sir, with your 

 prepared statement ? 



Dr. Wakelin. Yes, sir. 



STATEMENT OF DR. JAMES H. WAKELIN, JR., ASSISTANT SECRE- 

 TARY OF THE NAVY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 



Dr. Wakelin. Mr. Chairman, gentlemen, I appreciate the oppor- 

 tunity of appearing- before you today to discuss our long-range plans 

 in oceanography. The comments I have to make to you will stem 

 from two points of view. 



First, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Devel- 

 opment, I am concerned with the Navy's traditional interests in the 

 oceans; oceanography affects every aspect of our operations from 

 the Polaris fleet ballistic missile system to undersea warfare to am- 

 phibious and mine operations. 



Second, as chairman of the Interagency Committee on Oceanog- 

 raphy of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, I am 

 concerned with increasing this Nation's knowledge of the oceans — 



