We suggest, in addition that the ONR might profitably reexamine the 
particular importance of ocean science and technology to the Navy’s 
basic mission. 
3.0. INTERACTION OF NAVY PROGRAMS WITH CIVILIAN 
TECHNOLOGY 
The Panel’s projections concerning directions and rate of techno- 
logical development discussed in section 4, upon which so much of the 
Nation’s ocean program depends, assume that the Navy will success- 
fully pursue its current projects on Deep Submergence Systems and 
Man in the Sea. In the event the Navy fails to accomplish its ob- 
jectives in these areas the Panel’s estimates of progress, time, and 
cost will have to be revised. In such case it would be in the Nation’s 
interest to assign programs with similar goals to civilian agencies. 
The recent successful location and recovery of the unarmed nuclear 
weapon off Spain demonstrated the mutual benefits of close Navy- 
industry cooperation. It is recommended that the Navy make a con- 
tinuing, special effort to utilize the people, facilities, and know-how of 
the private sector in achieving its objectives in the Deep Submergence 
and Man in the Sea Projects. Only in this way can the Nation hope 
to capitalize quickly and profitably on its ocean technology capability. 
In the event complete information exchange would involve classified 
data, the Panel recommends that arrangements be made to provide 
properly qualified industrial groups with access to this classified in- 
formation. By 1975 the Panel foresees the possibility of conducting 
complex, highly technical operations on the ocean bottom which are 
well beyond the limits of present technology. The Panel recommends 
that a proper Federal role related to ocean-technology development 
would be provision of a test range equipped with standardized stations 
in which component systems, concepts, and materials can be critically 
tested. Such a test range might consist of stations on the water’s edge 
in the surf zone, at depths of 200, 600, 2,400, and 6,000 feet and per- 
haps in the abyssal deep. This facility would engender government- 
industry cooperation and technology developments with the desirable 
result. of shortening the time required for specific developments and 
acceptance testing. The Navy in meeting its needs will undoubtedly 
require such a range. The Panel recommends that the Navy under- 
take a study which could lead to development of this range. Once 
implemented it should be made available to industrial and university 
groups, users, being expected to pay a prorated share of the total 
operating cost and depreciation, as is the case in other national 
facilities. 
5.6. CONCLUSIONS 
In section 5.2 an already extensive Navy dependence on oceano- 
graph R & D was predicted to increase rapidly in the future. Not 
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