NATIONAL MARINE SCIENCES PROGRAM 



THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1967 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington^ B.C. 



The subcommittee met, at 10 :19 a.m. in room 1334, Longworth House 

 Office Building, Hon. Alton Lennon (chairman of the subcommittee) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Lennon. The subcommittee will come to order. This meeting, 

 gentlemen, is a continuation of our series of informational hearings to 

 receive testimony from the various departments of Government and 

 the agencies concerned with the national oceanographic program. 



Our witness this morning is well known to many of us, Dr. Robert 

 A. Frosch, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Develop- 

 ment. Dr. Frosch is a very able and distinguished successor to two able 

 and distinguished predecessors, Dr. Robert Morse and Dr. James 

 Wakelin, with whom we have had the privilege and pleasure of work- 

 ing since the Interagency Committee on Oceanography was created in 

 1959. 



For the record, Dr. Frosch is chairman of the Interagency Commit- 

 tee on Marine Research, Education, and Facilities, which is in eifect 

 the successor to the Interagency Committee on Oceanography. This is 

 his first appearance before this, subcommittee, but he is well known to 

 most of us. We are delighted to have him with us today. We now look 

 forward to a most valuable contribution to our present survey of the 

 activities in the national oceanographic program. 



Dr. Frosch, do you have a prepared statement? 



Dr. Frosch. Mr. Chairman, I do not. I have some prepared material 

 that I have made available to the committee. 



Mr. Lennon. Fine. We have that. If you will just proceed. 



STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT A. FROSCH, ASSISTANT SECRETARY 

 OF THE NAVY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND CHAIR- 

 MAN, INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON MARINE RESEARCH, EDU- 

 CATION, AND FACILITIES, ACCOMPANIED BY CAPT. J. EDWARD 

 SNYDER, JR., SPECIAL ASSISTANT, AND DR. EDWIN B. SHYKIND, 

 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, ICMREF 



Dr. Frosch. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It is a great 

 pleasure and honor for me to meet with you for the first time, partic- 

 ularly because this committee has taken the broadest view of marine 

 affairs of any group in the House of Representatives and has been re- 

 sponsible for so much action in this field. 



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