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V. INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGiiAPKY PROGRAM 



The report of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography of the federal 

 Council for Science and Technology "United States National Cceanographic Prosram 

 Fiscal Year 1962" marks a new and significant advance in the planning of the several 

 Government agencies concerned with the oceans. The ICO has done an excellent 

 job of coordinating and developing these programs. It is clear that there is good 

 cooperation, good direction and a sense of unified national purpose throughout the 

 report. In the seotiona that follow we analyze the agency programs (as we under- 

 stand them) in some detail. 



A. Department of Defense 



Navy * 



The Navy reports a ^10 million increase from Fiscal 1961 to FY 1962 (45%) 

 totalling 1^32,270, 000 for 1962. This increase is almost entirely accounted for by 

 three ships (two for military research and one for military survey activities). We 

 are happy to see more ships being fimded and realize that ships come in larger 

 budgetary packages than research projects. However, the increase for Fiscal 1962 

 has been accomplishod without any significant increase for research. 



Research — Detailed examination of the research portion of the Navy program 

 shows that the 8% increase reported is almost entirely due to such budgetary items 

 as oceanographic-hydrographic charting, instrumentation, geophysics-geographic 

 prediction, oceanographic-hydrographic predictions, etc. All of these are more 

 properly considered as applie^ developmental activities rather than research. In 

 spite of an impressive increase in the Navy budget there will actually be less money 

 available tc ONR for research in FY 1962 than in FY 1961 ! In Fiscal 1963 there 

 should be continued total program increases and a balance between increased 

 funding for research and for development and facilities activities. 



We have examined the ONR research program in some detail and feel that 

 it is well founded and without duplication or unnecessary overlapping. 



The Navy is to be congratulated that a considerable fraction of the funds 

 being supplied to laboratories to carry out cceanographic research are "untagged" 

 and the laboratory directors are remarkably free to use these funds in programs of 

 their own choosing. Especially in CNR, "projectitis" has been held to a minimum . 



Ship Construction — During the three years covered by the ICO report, 

 only one of the six ships funded has been for research. In contrast three out of 

 seven large ships built by the USSR since 1957 have been for basic research. In 

 the U. S. Navy TENOC plan the majority of the ships scheduled to be used for 



* See also Sections II-B,C,D and E. 



