(5) Given the nominal termination date of 1980, what recommenda- 

 tions would NACOA make about the future of IDOE? 



The Director asked that NACOA's evaluation and recommendations be 

 made available to him by the summer of 1975. 



NACOA established a panel consisting of Thomas A. Clingan (Chair- 

 man), Robert F. Bauer, Charles L. Drake, Thomas A. Fulham, Thomas 

 F. Malone, and Winona B. Vernberg. Upon Dr. Clingan's resignation 

 from NACOA to become Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Elmer P. 

 Wheaton succeeded him as Chairman. Subsequently Marne A. Dubs was 

 added to the panel. 



In conducting its review, the NACOA panel drew upon published 

 and unpublished IDOE reports, briefings by IDOE Office staff and par- 

 ticipating scientists, attendance at meetings of various IDOE scientific 

 councils, steering committees, advisory panels, workshops and conferences, 

 and consultation with individuals who have been involved with the IDOE 

 in its early and later stages. 



The panel did not attempt to judge firsthand the quality of the 

 scientific accomplishments of IDOE. The entire IDOE program has been 

 subjected to repeated scientific review by NSF advisory panels and by 

 the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engi- 

 neering, and the panel felt it could add little in this area. The panel 

 felt it could be most effective by concentrating on the appropriateness of 

 IDOE's goals, the progress being made, the effectiveness of IDOE's 

 approach to managing complex, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional re- 

 search projects, and the means by which IDOE's accomplishments thus 

 far might provide a basis for identifying future needs and planning ocean 

 research efforts for the years that lie ahead. 



