MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 7 
the formation and breakup of arctic ice must be predicted, 
weather conditions must be predicted, beach conditions and 
the land areas around these seas must be known. Further, 
the Navy must understand this environment in the Medi- 
terranean Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, 
Red Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. Our present understanding 
of these strategic areas is limited. In addition to these 
strategic areas, the Navy must have adequate knowledge of 
the broad reaches of the Atlantic and Pacific. 
Admiral Burke, in commending the report, added this significant 
comment: 
The numbers of oceanographers presently available in the 
United States are insufficient to meet the increasing military 
and civilian demands for their services. 
Sections 13 and 14 of S. 2692, adopting the proposals of the TENOC 
report, is designed also to meet, through scholarships, the educational 
and training needs. 
Admiral Burke supplemented this comment on June 16, 1959, with 
a letter to the chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 
Commerce, in which he stated in part: 
The interest of the Congress in this vital area is timely 
since legislative assistance will be required if all the recom- 
mendations of the Harrison Brown Committee are to be 
implemented for a sustained 10-year effort. 
Further, with reference to education and training of marine scien- 
tists and the Navy’s participation in this program, present and pro- 
jected, the Chief of Naval Operations stated: 
The expansion of curriculum and enrollment at each of 
these institutions represents a major capital venture that 
can quickly become a serious fiscal loss to these research 
centers if Federal support vacillates from year to year. 
The above quotations are pertinent in the light of comments on the 
bill received from some of the agencies which would participate in the 
program authorized. 
The Department of Commerce was not an original sponsor of the 
study made by the Committee on Oceanography of the National 
Academy of Sciences. Nor were any of its agencies or bureaus. 
However, the Secretary of Commerce, Hon. Sinclair Weeks, in 
1958 requested tlat the Academy appoint a committee to undertake 
an evaluation of the Department’s activities and responsibilities in the 
fields of science and technology. 
Contracts were entered into and a committee of scientists and engi- 
neers appointed. The contracts were continued under Secretary 
Strauss and the present Secretary, Frederick H. Mueller. 
The Academy Committee made its report on March 2 of this year. 
Four of the seven agencies studied are designated in S. 2692 as 
having a significant role in the projected 10-year oceanographic 
program. They are: 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
Maritime Administration. 
Weather Bureau. 
National Bureau of Standards. 
