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I had heard that there was some complaint — and I don't know how 

 justified it is — from industry that many of the study contractors are 

 passing out questionnaires with the very same questions on them. 

 Have you rmi into this at all ? 



I presume there could be some overlap on the questioning. I don't 

 know to what extent this is being done. Have you heard this ? 



Dr. Wenk. No, sir; I had not heard that complaint and the first 

 thing I am going to do is find out if there is some validity to this. 



Mr. Rogers. I don't know that there is. This is the complaint I had 

 heard, that there was some overlap. It might be something that you 

 ought to look into. 



(The following information was submitted in response . to the 



above :) 



"We know of no duplication in the questionnaires sent to industry under either 

 Council or Commission contracts. We are now checking all Contractors and have 

 asked them to hold up any new requests until we have checked. We have also 

 notified the Commission so that they may check their contracts. 



Mr. EoGERS. What has been done by the Council to encourage private 

 industry's effort in the field? 



Dr. Wenk. To answer that question, I would like to point out that 

 industry might be thought of as divided into two different categories. 

 The first would be the high technology industry that develops instru- 

 ments, deep-diving submarines, comLmunications equipment, and so on. 

 The second is a sector of industry dealing with the resources of the 

 sea — oil and gas, minerals extraction and fishing, shipping and so on. 



I distinguish between the two because I believe their role here is 

 somewhat different, although I hope harmonious, as between the two 

 sectors of industry itself. At the moment because we have been in busi- 

 ness a relatively short time, I don't believe that I could say that there 

 has been a major development to involve industry any more actively 

 than has been the case in the past, but we have tried to do two things. 



First, we have tried to indicate how broad this field of marine 

 sciences is. I have the feeling that people may have thought this was a 

 rather narrowly specialized field which could be of interest only in 

 very special ways. The same problem existed when this country first 

 went into nuclear power. People thought that the only participants 

 would be physicists. When we went into the space program for a while 

 there was a similar concern even though everyone admitted that no 

 one had ever been trained as a space scientist or technologist. 



There is a little of that problem here and I believe we have tried to 

 broaden the understanding of industry so that they can see their own 

 role. 



The second thing we have tried to do is to excite industry to submit 

 new ideas. These contracts that we mentioned earlier provided an ex- 

 plicit opportunity for industry to come to us with ideas and it also 

 suggested to them by the very topics those that might be most prom- 

 ising at this stage of review, which could in turn encourage them to go 

 back and perhaps do some in-house study and as time goes on, come 

 in to the Government with more unsolicited proposals. 



Mr. Rogers. Do you feel that industry has responded sufficiently ? 



Dr. Wenk. No, sir ; I do not. 



Mr. Rogers. Let's be frank now. 



Dr. Wenk. To be frank, I do not and I have already gone on record 

 on this publicly. In addressing the Aircraft Industries Association 



