28 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
As you pointed out at our last meeting, the panels, which carry the 
real brunt of the ICO policy-formation load, themselves depend 
upon people who have other primary jobs in the Government. A1- 
though they can advise, formulate policy, and address themselves to 
needs, they generally do not possess anyone to “do the work.” Accord- 
ingly, as the ICO has acquired new staff, each has been assigned _per- 
manently to one or more panel chairmen. This will prove helpful 
to the panels who will thus be able to draw conclusions and make rec- 
ommendations secure in the knowledge that they can follow through 
and complete their staff action in a reasonable period of time. In addi- 
tion, continuity of communications and organization is maintained 
not only within any particular panel but among the panels to the 
extent that they need to work together. We have found this last 
aspect of staff assignment to be particularly valuable in that our 
panel memberships change frequently. 
The ICO is attempting to consolidate its facilities as well as its 
administration. As space has become available with the withdrawal 
of naval elements from the Navy yard and the Navy yard annex, a 
number of our agencies, individually and through staff coordination, 
have been able to acquire space there. By the end of this month, one 
corner of the Navy yard will be shared by the oceanographic com- 
ponents of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Oceanographic 
Office of the Navy Department, the instrumentation and data centers, 
Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Geological Survey, Smith- 
sionian Institution, and the ICO staff itself. We look forward to this 
colocation as one further step in the tightening of inteagency coopera- 
tion and communication in oceanography. 
In recognition of the rapidly growing role of oceanography in our 
international relationships, the State Department, as I indicated 
earlier in my statement, has been given full membership im the com- 
mittee. At the time of our last meeting, this Nation was committed 
to the International Indian Ocean Expedition, and we were planning 
the International Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic. 
Both of these programs have flourished and their success has encour- 
aged the international community to plan and implement several other 
joint ventures. Dr. Arthur Maxwell, Chairman of our Panel on 
International Programs, will discuss the status and accomplishments 
of these programs and will more comprehensively outline the rationale 
which tends to focus attention on oceanography as an increasingly use- 
ful element in international diplomacy. 
In earlier hearings, your committee pointed clearly to the overriding 
need for a unifying long-range plan and a set of goals to guide our 
national effort in oceanography. In the year following 1963, the ICO 
completed and published what we believe to be the first long-range 
plan designed to unite the efforts of the many Federal agencies con- 
tributing to this program. It is entitled, “Oceanography: The Ten 
Years Ahead,” approved and forwarded to Congress by Dr. Wiesner 
on July 26,1963. Ihave it here and with your permission I would like 
to introduce it also for the record. 
Mr. Lennon. Without objection it will be inserted in the record 
following your remark. 
(See app. 5, p. 425.) 
