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responsibilities one has. There are also benefits that 

 accrue to leaders who are actively engaged with others 

 in true partnerships. From the Navy Oceanography 

 viewpoint there are several opportunities which might 

 be leveraged by others to enhance our National 

 capability. 



First, I am chartered to ensure that the Navy and 

 DoD have the very best oceanographic support possible 

 within the funding available. To do otherwise, even 

 for other lofty goals, is contrary to the program 

 dictates which are implicit in current authorizations 

 and appropriations. I take seriously the CNO' s policy 

 statement about oceanography's core status. I will 

 fully fund and deploy as soon as practical a fleet of 

 no less than eight survey vessels, maintain a state of 

 the art computational capability to archive and analyze 

 data and predict ocean and atrospheric conditions for 

 the DoD. I will seek to use all-source satellite data 

 to best describe the ocean. I will retain a stable, 

 competent workforce of officers, civilians and enlisted 

 personnel as stewards of Navy's core oceanographic 



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