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that can help contribute to other National ocean goals. 

 Senior Navy leaders have understood their 

 responsibility to apply such capabilities to other 

 National goals when it does not risk, but rather, 

 enhances, national defense. 



Others have recognized Navy oceanography 

 capability too, and the two-way. value of Navy-civil 

 partnerships in oceanography. A group of enlightened 

 ocean scientists from industry, academia and Government 

 came together in 1994, under the name MEDEA, to explore 

 mutual oceanographic leveraging. Many of the concepts 

 developed later in this testimony were first discussed 

 with MEDEA and others, like their allies at the 

 Consortium on Oceanographic Research and Education 

 (CORE) . The initiative of your committees is 

 particularly opportune because you can take advantage 

 of their momentum to achieve your goal of greater 

 cooperation in an area critical to this maritime 

 nation. 



