4 REPOIl'J' OF THE UNDERSEAS WARFARE ADVISORY PANEL 



should be considered as outside the Navy's personnel and budget 

 ceilings. 



16. We have moved too slowly in developing nuclear weapons 

 specifically optimized for ASW work, and in securing precise quanti- 

 tative data concerning the effects of underwater nuclear explosions. 



17. The bureau system of the Navy has serious shortcomings in 

 the present era of highly integrated and complex weapons systems. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



1. The Navy's research and development budget for systems im- 

 mediately relevant to undersea warfare should be at least doubled in 

 fiscal year 1959, and substantially and continually increased there- 

 after. 



2. There should be a substantial and continuing increase in the 

 Navy's budget for basic research not immediately related to opera- 

 tional requirements. The funding of both basic and applied research 

 should be determined by the availability of qualified scientists and 

 institutions, and should be designed to stimulate the continued orderly 

 growth of universities, private research centers, and industries which 

 can contribute to the solution of our long-range problems in undersea 

 warfare. 



3. Basic research in oceanography should in particular receive in- 

 creased support. 



4. The appropriate committees of the Congress should give serious 

 consideration to increasing substantially the moneys available for 

 oceanographic survey work, both on the high seas and in distant 

 coastal areas. 



5. The Navy should, as soon as possible, move to employ far more 

 fully than in the past the resources of universities, private research 

 centers, and industry for carrying out both basic and applied research 

 on undersea warfare problems. 



6. The rate and scale of out attack submarine construction program 

 should be significantly increased. 



7. The Navy should immediately proceed with the construction of 

 an initial task unit of nine Polaris submarines, and authorization and 

 appropriations for this purpose should be requested of the present 

 session of the Congress. 



8. The Polaris system, for funding purposes, should be entirely re- 

 moved from the Navy's shipbuilding budget. 



9. Construction budget requests for the Polaris system should be 

 determined by the Secretary of Defense and the National Security 

 Council, as part of our overall strategic deterrent budget. 



10. The Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission should increase 

 their efforts to develop new nuclear weapons specifically optimized for 

 underseas warfare. 



1 1 . The Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense 

 should perform such additional underwater test shots as are needed 

 to augment weapons effects data, to increase weapons efficiency, to 

 improve ship design, and to minimize the size ancl yield of weapons 

 required for ASW work. Such tests should of course be performed 

 in a manner consistent with keeping radioactive contamination and 

 fallout to a minimum. 



