12. APPLIED RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS 



INCLUDING ASWEPS 



PART III. FOR THE BUREAU OF NAVAL WEAPONS 



Murray H. Schefer 



Navy Department 

 Washington, D. C. 



The requirements of the Bureau of Naval Weapons for 

 oceanographic instrumentation are based on the programs which 

 support the mission of the Bureau. This mission reads, in part, 

 as follows: "The Bureau of Naval Weapons is responsible for 

 the research, development, design, test, operating standards, 

 and evaluation of all naval weapons, Navy and Marine Corps air- 

 craft, target drones, naval photographic and meteorological 

 equipment, and supporting equipment. Every effort of the 

 Bureau is oriented to the concept: ' The better to serve and 

 support the Fleet.'" All weapons and detection systems which 

 operate in whole, or in part, in the ocean, or in the atmosphere 

 immediately above it, are affected and/or limited by the marine 

 environment. Intelligent design, improvement, test, and evalua- 

 tion of weapons and related systems demands that these effects 

 and limitations be well understood. This understanding will only 

 come from the careful analysis and study of data gathered to 

 determine the relationships between the environmental conditions 

 and the instruments. Our first problem, therefore, is to measure 

 accurately those properties of the marine environment which are 

 considered significant. 



The oceanographic work pursued by the Bureau, in large 

 part, can be aptly termed Applied Military Oceanographic Re- 

 search. In addition, a certain amount of basic research isper- 

 fornned because of gaps in our knowledge, because nobody else 

 is doing the work which needs doing to keep the applied pro- 

 gram going. 



The objectives and requirennents of instrumentation for 

 survey and research have already been described to you. Although 

 our mission and objectives differ from those of survey and 



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