A WELCOME TO THE GOVERNMENT -INDUSTRY 

 OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION 

 SYMPOSIUM 



Hon. James H. Wakelin, Jr. 



Department of the Navy- 

 Washington, D. C. 



I am delighted to see the results of the long efforts in plan- 

 ning and progrannming for this particular meeting, which is a 

 milestone in the relationships between our industrial laboratory- 

 scientists and development people and those in the scientific frater- 

 nity and institutions and in the Government doing oceanogr aphic 

 research and surveys. 



Let me say this is by no means a casual gathering that you 

 are attending and casually planned or appreciated. Dr. Jerome 

 B. Wiesner, the President's science advisor, and his staff -- 

 Dr. Edward Wenk, Jr. and Dr. Robert N. Kreidler -- Dr. Harold 

 Brown, the Director of the Defense Research and Engineering for 

 Mr. McNamara and ourselves in the Navy, and I might add also 

 the President's personal interest -- has on the executive side, 

 together with many committees in the House and the Senate, 

 created a national interest in the whole subject of oceanography, 

 both for our own welfare and for our security. 



So let me say personally, and in part as the Chairman of the 

 Interagency Committee on Oceanography, I hope you will seriously 

 consider the problems that are laid in front of you today and 

 suggest to us solutions that are real and practical and which we 

 can use to get on with our oceanographic work in the national 

 effort. 



The reason we have turned our attention more seriously ttan 

 previously to the sea is not a result of recent publicity campaigns, 

 but because of a coordinated look at our program from a number of 

 vantage points, which indicated that during the last thirty years 

 we were not in effect giving the proper attention to those areas 

 of oceanography which are both economically and militarily impor- 

 tant. 



