Attachment B 



A Sampling of Civilian 

 Ocean Engineering Needs 



The Ocean Engineering panel was well aware that it was not the 

 first group to take on an evaluation of national civilian ocean engineer- 

 ing needs and instructed staff to seek out previous studies with bearing 

 on the task before it. A number of these previous studies turned out to 

 be surprisingly explicit. A sampling from four reports covering a span 

 of seven years is included in this attachment to demonstrate the care 

 and detail with which ocean engineering needs have been specified. 

 Excerpts from the Stratton Commission Report are not included partly 

 because it is so well known, and partly because it generalized these needs 

 into targets of national capability so that the underpinning specifics are 

 not otherwise easily summarized. 



It was the existence of reports such as these from which the attached 

 concepts have been made which brought the panel to the early conclu- 

 sion that it would not suit its own purpose to provide another set of 

 what it would be nice to know about ocean engineering. Rather it 

 needed to know what it would be good to do first of that which was 

 already known. 



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