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NAVOCEANO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM 



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Distribution system of the Navy for oceanographic charts and publications. 



To accomplish this objective, a worldwide system consisting of 

 16 field distribution points and more than 150 commercial sales 

 agents has been established. Inventory management over the 

 more than 90,000 different published items included in this 

 distribution system is accomplished by use of Automatic 

 Data Processing equipment and Automatic Digital Network 

 (AUTODIN) facilities. As a result of agreements between the 

 Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Director of 

 Naval Intelligence, and the Commander of the Naval Oceano- 

 graphic Office in April 1965, responsibility for the inventory 

 management and distribution of all finished intelligence materials 

 to fleet units was included in this system. 



Research and development work, underway and planned, in 

 support of the distribution system involves the greater use of 

 miniaturization and automation, including a system of applying 

 corrections to nautical charts by a screen printing process. In 

 the field of operations research, plans provide for the devising 

 of a transportation model to assure the most efficient and 



