REAR ADMIRAL G. N. JOHANSEN (Land -Air, Inc.): Would it be 

 feasible for ICO to establish a centralized information office where 

 representatives of Industry could explain their capabilities and be 

 directed to the agencies interested in these capabilities? 



MR. H. H, ECKLES (BCF): A mechanism is being set up for hand- 

 ling this need. At present a master instrumentation proposal and 

 capability file is being compiled at the National Oceanographic Data 

 Center. Reviews of proposals made to each agency are to be plac- 

 ed m the file and also made available to other governmental or non- 

 profit research groups which might have an interest in the instru- 

 ments concerned. The file will be organized so as to protect the 

 ideas and rights of companies. It will, however, be a central 

 source of information on instrument possibilities, to be used by 

 governmental agencies. Other research institutions will have 

 access to pertinent, nonproprietary information in the file but will 

 not have access to the file itself. 



MR. CHARLES McLOON (Hughes Aircraft Company): In the syn- 

 optic survey system of the ASWEPS program, have data samp- 

 ling rates been determined? If so, will the data link handle the 

 voiunne ? 



MR. J. J. SCHULE, JR. (HO): The proposed synoptic survey 

 system, which s planned for installation aboard ocean station 

 vessels, picket ships, and selected fleet destroyers, will provide 

 a representation of the vertical distribution of temperature, 

 sound velocity, and conductivity as a function of depth. The 

 specific vertical sampling interval for these data has not as yet 

 been decided. It may consist of ZO to 30 readings for each 

 variable. When the system is fully developed, we can expect to 

 have about 50 to 60 ships reporting, each ship transmitting four 

 sets of observations a day. When compared to other data hand- 

 ling problems, the volume of data connected with this system is not 

 considered excessive and could easily be handled by the proposed 

 data link. 



MR. WILLIAM PRICHEP (Specialty Electronics Development): 

 What areas of instrumentation exist which are satisfactory in 

 th4ir present state -- if any? 



MR. G. JAFFE (HO): The following instruments are giving satis- 

 factory service, although there is room for some improvement. 



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