INTRODUCTION 



SECRETARY OF THE NAVY 



ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY 

 FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 



CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS 



OCEANOGRAPHIC 



PLANS AND PROGRAMS 



BOARD 



OFFICE OF THE 



OCEANOGRAPHER 



OF THE NAVY 



STAFF 



•ASSISTANTS FOR- 



OCEAN SCIENCE 



OCEAN 

 ENGINEERING 8 

 DEVELOPMENT 



OCEANOGRAPHIC 

 OPERATIONS 



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CHIEF OF NAVAL MATERIAL 



Navy Oceanographic Program management structure 



Chief of Naval Material (Development) as the Assistant Ocean- 

 ographer for Engineering and Development. A third assistant, 

 the Assistant Oceanographer for Operations, is to be named. 

 The instruction assigning the tasks and functions to the Ocean- 

 ographer of the Navy define Ocean Science as "That effort in 

 research; development; and technical guidance in support of 

 operations, to advance the knowledge of the physical/chemical/ 

 biological/geological nature of the world's oceans and their 

 boundaries (siuface and bottom)."* Following this instruction, 

 the Navy Ocean Science Program presented in this report has 

 been separately identified among continuing individual re- 

 search-and-development programs of the Office of Naval Re- 

 search, the Naval Material Command, the Naval Oceanographic 

 Office, the Bureau of Medicine, and the Naval Weather Service. 

 The nature of the work and the type of questions or problems 

 addressed have provided the basis for identification of the Navy 



'=OpNav Instruction 5450.165. 



