OCEANOGRAPHY 1961 — PHASE 3 265 



Admiral Coates. We will keep flexible, sir. Any time you make 

 a. 10-year pros^ram, you must contemplate you will want to make some 

 changes in it before the full 10 j^ears is completed. 



Mr. Drewky. If we called you up next year and said : "^Vliat are 

 you planning to do in 1961, "for instance, would you have formulated 

 all}'- plans? Would you keep always looking ahead on the lO-j^ear 

 basis ? 



Admiral Coates. We will revise it every 2 years, sir. So if you 

 called us next year, we would not be able to tell you about 1971. 



Mr. Drewry. That is what I wondered. You do plan to keep re- 

 vising it. 



Mr. Bauer. Admiral, I have one or two questions. 



Would you tell us something about the organization of the Office of 

 Naval Research and its mission? In other words, I am thinking now 

 that you operate on R.D.T. & E. money exclusively. 



Admiral Coates. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Batter. Yet many of the problems in the problem areas that 

 you look into and finance are also financed by O. & M. money. Is that 

 not correct? 



Admiral Coates. Our departmental operation, that is, the pay of 

 the people who work in the Office of Naval Research, is financed by 

 O. & M. money, and our training devices center, its installation, repair, 

 spares, and maintenance, come out of O. & M. money. However, our 

 program is all R.D.T. & E. money. 



Mr. Baiter. That is what rather confused me. That is vrhy I was 

 wondering if you could tell us what your mission is. 



Are you concerned only with basic research ? 



Admiral Coates. No, sir; basic and applied research. The Office 

 of Naval Research was established by law, Public Law 588. I have 

 forgotten the United States Code number. The purpose of the office 

 is to conduct research for the Navy and to coordinate research, for the 

 Navy. 



The Bureaus also conduct research, mostly in the applied end of 

 the spectrum. The Office of Naval Research conducts research heavily 

 at the basic end of the spectrum and in the applied. 



We do not develop actual production prototypes of hardware items, 

 whereas the Bureaus do. We do some exploratory development, but 

 we leave off with what you might call the laboratory feasibility demon- 

 stration device. And the Bureaus pick it up from there. 



Mr. Batter. Well, are you in competition in any way with the 

 support of the nonprofit institutions in oceanography with the 

 National Science Foundation ? 



Admiral Coates. No, sir, we are not in competition. We are in 

 cooperation with the National Science Foundation. 



Mr. Batter. What I mean to say is that you both fund the same insti- 

 tutions, do you not ? 



Admiral Coates. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Bauer. Over the same general spectrum of research? 



Admiral Coates. Yes, sir; each for our own purposes. 



Mr. Bauer. How do you contract with nonprofit institutions? 



Admiral Coates. We write contracts with them. The National 

 Science Foundation deals in grants. We are autliorized by law to make 

 grants, but we make very few. 



