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in detail about those efforts. Just this month the OTC, with NUWC 

 and a number of small companies as partners, won one of four 

 awards for the "Ocean Technology Center of Excellence" in a 

 statewide competition to establish centers of excellence. The 

 focus of the proposal, which will now be going forward, is the 

 development of technologies in the areas of marine foods, 

 environmental monitoring, and ocean acoustics . 



* NUWC, together with the University of Massachusetts, 

 Dartmouth, was a catalyst for a consortium called MASSRICON 



(Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut) . The members - 



Harvard University 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 



University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 



University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 



University of Connecticut, Avery Point 



Physical Sciences Incorporated 



Naval Undersea Warfare Center 

 - have formed an Industry, Government, and Academic team to build 

 on regional strengths in ocean science. The focus of this group 

 is to position the region to pursue an international enviro-tech 

 market while addressing regional oceanographic interests, by 

 leveraging regional intellectual and facility assets. Dr. Cressy 

 will speak more about this subject. 



* The Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division, has 

 signed a five-year agreement with a nonprofit educational 

 institution co help establish a marine park and learning center 

 for children along the waterfront in New London, Connecticut. 



NUWC's arrangement with OceanSciences, Incorporated is the 

 Navy's first Education Partnership Agreement, an instrujnent 

 authorized by Congress in 1990 to encourage defense laboratories 

 to help local institutions promote science, math and engineering 

 education. The New London park, called OceanQuest, will be the 

 "marine equivalent" of the U. S. Space Camp in Huntsville, 

 Alabama . 



UVWC, Newport Division, primarily through its New London 

 Detachment, will contribute scientific skill, facilities, 

 equipment, computer software and other resources to OceanQuest 's 

 Science Adventure Center. OceanSciences, which is based in New 

 London, will develop the educational materials for the center. 



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As you heard at the beginning, NUWC's unique Navy laboratory 

 mission includes the area of "autonomous undersea systems" - the 

 primary example of which is Unmanned Underspa Vf^hlrles . or UUV's. 



