12. APPLIED RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS 



INCLUDING ASWEPS 



PART II. FOR THE BUREAU OF SHIPS 



B. King Couper 



Navy Department 

 Washington, D. C. 



The position of the Bureau of Ships in regard to oceanographic 

 research has been publicly expressed before Congress at the House 

 Special Subcommittee on Oceanography of the Committee on 

 Merchant Marine and Fisheries as follows: 



"The Bureau provides modest support to oceanographic 



research ... as its primary concern is in the application of 



such research. 



"The Bureau is a USER-CONSUMER of oceanographic research . 



"However, the Bureau does contribute to the oceanographer and 



oceanographic research in three ways: 



(1) By building equipment which is useful in delineating the 

 ocean, 



(2) by assisting in the development of instruments which 

 give us the limiting factors controlling design of 

 military equipment and weapons which we must build , 

 and 



(3) by providing direct research support in the case of 

 certain priority items, such as in ASW " 



I would like to emphasize the second item above again: "By 

 assisting in the development of instruments which give us the 

 limiting factors controlling the design of military equipment and 

 weapons. " This is our main justification for participation in this 

 Symposium. 



As an exannple of controlling limiting factors in determining 

 what goes into a new military equipment, the range of temperature 

 which one will encounter in different parts of the sea is one piece 

 of necessary information. I want to point up the remarks of 

 Ivlr. James M, Snodgrass a little more specifically. It is obvious 

 that the operational requirements of a ship in the tropics are 

 different from those in the arctic. Such requirements can be 



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