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Naval Postgraduate School, logistic support for operations in 

 connection with the MONITOR Marine Sanctuary, and the collection 

 of information to support NOAA' s real-time navigational 

 information systems. 



DEFENSE HYDROGRAPHIC INITIATIVE 



The Defense Hydrographic Initiative (DHI) was established by 

 formal charter on June 20, 1991 to coordinate hydrographic and 

 bathymetric mapping among the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) , the 

 Oceanographer of the Navy (N096), and NOAA's National Ocean 

 Service. It is a real success story. The DHI has leveraged 

 federal resources by developing a common approach to the 

 assessment of errors associated with bathymetric data, by 

 completing the design of a data collection system that will 

 permit ship-of -opportunity data collection {including ships from 

 academia, industry, Navy, DMA, NOAA, and abroad), and by 

 development of a Hydrographic Source Assessment System (HYSAS) . 

 These developments will lead to a master sea-floor digital 

 database that will contain the highest quality sea-floor data, 

 and that will be accessible for scientific research, sea-floor 

 engineering, environmental assessment, and marine navigation 

 applications . 



SUBMARINE ARCTIC SCIENCE CRUISES 



The multi-agency MOA regarding the use of nuclear submarines to 

 accomplish scientific research in the Arctic Ocean epitomizes how 

 dual -use should work. The Navy desires to retain an operational 

 capability in the Arctic, and to increase its scientific 

 understanding of the environment in which it must operate. 

 Toward this end, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) invited 

 civilian scientists to worlc with scientists at the Navy Arctic 

 Research Laboratory. Navy initiated the MOA for a Submarine 

 Arctic Science Cruise Program (SCICEX) . The MOA was signed by 

 Navy, NOAA, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. 

 Geological Survey in June, 1994. Two cruises, one by the USS 

 PARGO and one by the USS CAVALLA, have already been completed and 

 planning for SCICEX- 96 is well along. Dr. Ted DeLaca, Director 

 of the Office of Arctic Research at the University of Alaska, 

 with which NOAA has the Cooperative Institute for Arctic 

 Research, was the chief scientist for both cruises. The crews of 

 the submarines were extremely supportive of the civilian 

 scientists, and all scientific data was declassified shortly upon 

 completion of the cruises making it available to the scientific 

 community-at - large . Already, significant new findings have been 

 made that influence geological, geophysical, biological, and 

 oceanographic thinking about the Arctic region. On their own, 

 the civil agencies could never have duplicated the capability 

 offered by the Navy's nuclear submarines. Prior to each cruise, 

 a Science Steering Committee, composed of a member from each 



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