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late 1965 into the Ocean Science and Technology Group, and 

 early in 1966 a new program was begun, with the formation 

 of the Ocean Sciences and Engineering Division of the Naval 

 Research Laboratory. These actions were undertaken to con- 

 solidate and strengthen the Navy research ocean-science efforts. 

 Concurrently, the Naval Oceanographic Office identified a re- 

 search and development group whose activities were largely 

 devoted to ocean science. These three groups were moved to the 

 same building at the Naval Research Laboratory. This col- 

 location has been regarded as a potential Washington head- 

 quarters for the Ocean Science Program of the Navy. During 

 the past ten months, these three groups, a number of private 

 contractors, and several groups from laboratories from the 

 Naval Material Command have cooperated on a number of 

 specific projects in science, engineering, development, and 

 operations analysis. In this work, the headquarters, or center, 

 has served as a useful focal point for these activities. With 

 this experience as a guide, a recent decision has been made to 

 formalize this center as the Maury Center for Ocean Science 

 of the Navy. 



The ocean-science programs sponsored by the commands 

 under the Chief of Naval Material have tended to concentrate 

 on the development of an in-house capability for research in 

 ocean science at each of the Navy laboratories and the university 

 research centers, such as the Ordnance Research Laboratory 

 at Pennsylvania State University and the Applied Physics Labor- 

 atory at the University of Washington. Equipment and systems 

 development programs thus have close contact with programs of 

 ocean science. The Navy Material programs rely mainly upon 

 ONR programs at the universities and private institutions and 

 upon Navy laboratory research groups to provide the basic re- 

 search from which the major applied eflforts of Navy laboratories 

 grow. Program review and documentation exchange exist to help 

 integrate these programs. To insure integration at the laboratory 

 levels, there is considerable direct contact among the universities 

 and private laboratories and the Navy, particularly among the 

 working scientists and engineers. As examples, in the San 



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