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c. IDBMS Connectivity 



Wide access to IDBMS should be allowed. The ©EMS 

 capability, when completed later this year, will represent a 

 unique asset with no parallel in the civilian sector. Remote 

 access to the classified version of IDBMS, with local 

 exploitation through iheexploitationcenter or via an encrypted 

 link, should be arranged. 



d. Network Accessability 



On-line connectivity to databases approved for public release 

 should be provided, thus vastly accelerating civilian use and 

 generating feedback. It will probably be necessary to make 

 provision for a "help desk" to address user issues. 



e. Federal Ocean Science Agencies 



The entire oceanography community would greatly benefit 

 from a much stronger partnership among the United States 

 government ocean science agencies (0>fR, NOAA, NASA, 

 DoE and NSF). In the past there has been more effective 

 collaboration than at present, a situation which is clearly 

 detrimental to all, particularly in an era of limited public 

 finiding for ocean science. 



A significant step toward such an improvement in joint 

 activities wouki be the implementanm of the recomiaendadons 



of this study. The civifa'an ocean science agencies wooM find 

 that research efforts to exploit the Navy ' s environmental data 

 holdings would become the focus of the unproved paituership 

 with the Navy. In turn, the Navy would find that the feedback 

 received from close interactions with the civilian research 

 community would lead to an evohitionary unprovement in its 

 own oceanographic capabilities. Tlie exploitation center, in 

 particular, would become a major source of collaborative 

 energy in die ocean science community. 



f. Visiting Personnel 



Provision should be made for one or more visiting senior 

 scientist positions at NAVOCEANO and for civilian 

 participation in ocean surveys (with suitable restrictions 

 regarding Umits on release of any information obtained). 



g. Overall 



It is clear that a better understanding of Navy capabilities and 

 problems by the non-Navy research community would lead to 

 solutions of many problems. Encouraging researchers and 

 smdencs to address Navy issues by attracting them with access 

 to dsta will accelerate all toward solutions for Navy problems. 

 Clearly, a cadre of tesearchet^ would be spawned by the draw 

 of accessible, interesting data. 



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