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our data and numerical products. This is fertile 

 ground to till. N'OAA is advancing here, as well. 

 Consultation with NOAA and other potential users of the 

 data we collect and manage is increasingly important. 



One proposal that comes out of the MEDEA 

 deliberations is that the Naval Oceanographic Office 

 become a repository of very highly classified data 

 collected by National Technical Means (NTM) at 

 specified geolocations in the ocean, called "ocean 

 fiducial sites." At these sites the Navy and cleared 

 civil scientists would be able to observe the ocean 

 over long time periods by comparing the comprehensive 

 unclassified and classified data holdings already in 

 the Navy's hands with national sensor (NTM) 

 observations. One could make work stations available 

 in the Naval Oceanographic Office for cleared 

 scientists to view and work with all of these data. If 

 Navy becomes a fiducial archive site under CIA ^ 

 Environmental Program sponsorship, I hope to create, 

 within my budget authority, that modest capability for 

 cleared scientists. The return for that investment 



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