9 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Mr. Lennon. Yes, sir; the members of the committee have been 
furnished with a witness list and the subject for discussion that you 
were gracious enough to furnish the committee some several days 
ago. 
oie Hornic. I also have with me Dr. Wenk, who is Executive Sec- 
retary of the Federal Council for Science and Technology and a mem- 
ber of my staff. 
Mr. Lennon. You have a prepared statement, I believe, sir, which 
has been furnished to members of the subcommittee, and if you will 
just proceed we will be delighted to hear from you, sir. 
STATEMENT OF DR. D. F. HORNIG, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SCIENCE 
AND TECHNOLOGY, AND CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL COUNCIL OF 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Dr. Hornig. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I appre- 
ciate this opportunity to appear before your Subcommittee on Ocean- 
ography to discuss the relationship of this field to our national wel- 
fare. ‘This is the first occasion on which the Director of the Office 
of Science and Technology has been able to discuss with you the 
oceanographic program and the manner in which the program is 
developed and administered. 
I especially welcome your invitation to develop a series of presenta- 
tions from the executive branch that will describe how the oceano- 
graphic research activities of some 20 bureaus are brought together 
in reasonably coherent fashion. All of these activities are carried on 
by the separate departments and independent agencies that have 
statutory missions related to the sea. As a consequence, the program 
has been primarily described to the Congress on an agency-by-agency 
basis. I believe, however, that it is vital that appropriate congres- 
sional committees examine the scope of such interagency programs in 
terms of the aggregate goals and the total national effort to achieve 
them. 
I recall that it was your subcommittee that took mitiative to 
examine the potential of oceanography to contribute to the Nation’s 
needs very soon after publication of the National Academy of Sciences 
proposals for a 10-year program of Federal support to strengthen this 
enterprise. H.R. 6997, which was reported out by your committee and 
passed the House of Representatives last year, would identify ocean- 
ography as a field deserving of a congressional policy action. In 
calling for the development of a comprehensive, long-range plan and 
coordination in oceanography, this bill gained the support of my 
predecessor, Jerome B. Wiesner, in his letter to Chairman Bonner last 
June. This legislation has not yet been acted on. I should like to 
lend my support to its enactment, for I believe that it will help us 
better to achieve a coordinated, comprehensive, and effective national 
program in oceanography. 
OCEANOGRAPHY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL GOALS 
Before discussing further the Federal oceanography program, I 
should like to describe what we mean by oceanography and how this 
field of science is relevant to practical matters of importance to the 
Nation. 
