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operational commitments of the Navy are dictated to an ever 

 larger degree by complex and shifting patterns of interdepend- 

 ence, a fact which widens the spectrum of requirements 

 and calls for tools of increasing power in their identification. 

 The accelerated advance and diversification of science, finally, 

 brings with it the potential of a greatly increased range of 

 options for meeting such future requirements. If there is one 

 thing, above all others, for which the Navy today needs the 

 mentality that ONR has fostered and which it represents on the 

 Navy team, then it is for the purpose of helping to make in- 

 creasingly cogent choices in this increasingly demanding 

 environment. 



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