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nology, food, distribution, international, maintenance, procurement, quality and 
reliability assurance, research and development, technical information and train- 
ing. These committees provide advice and technical assistance to the govern- 
ment—either on request or on the Association’s own initiative. The other means 
through which NSIA performs its communications role is a program of national 
activities, embracing professional symposia, conferences, industry briefings and 
visits to defense and other government installations. 
It was the lack of such an organized communications medium between govern- 
ment and industry in World War II that prompted the formation of NSIA. 
The problem inherent in the oceans in regard to anti-submarine warfare 
promoted NSIA’s Oceanography Subcommittee to be established in 1962. At its 
founding, Dr. James H. Wakelin, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Re- 
search and Development, predicted that before too long, that small subcommittee 
would grow to full Advisory Committee status. He was surely correct, for in 
1965, the Hxecutive Committee of NSIA established our Ocean Science and 
Technology Advisory Committee (OSTAC). 
Ever since its formation OSTAC has provided a mechanism for productive 
exchange between Government agencies and industry groups on oceanic matters 
that appears to have filled an essential need. The summary of one of its reports, 
which was submitted in early 1966, “Industry and the Ocean Continental Shelf”, 
was incorporated in its entirety as Appendix III of the Report, “Effective Use 
of the Sea’’, written by the Panel on Oceanography of the President’s Science 
Advisory Committee. A second and more detailed report on the same subject was 
submitted in November, 1967, to the Stratton Commission and to the National 
Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. 
In the late fail of 1967, a special study was performed by the Committee in 
response to questions directed to it by Dr. Robert A. Frosch, Assistant Secretary 
of the Navy (R&D) and the Chairman of the Committee on Research, Education 
and Facilities of the Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. 
The results of this study were subsequently transmitted to the Commission. The 
subjects encompassed the following: 
Goals of the National Ocean Program as seen by industry ; 
Delineation of the proper roles of the Federal Government vis a vis 
industry ; and 
Recommendations concerning the advisability of a statutorily recognized 
Advisory Committee which would permit inputs from those not in the 
Federal Government Sector. 
The Commission’s recommendations reflect many of our guidelines for proper 
Government-Industry roles. Specific reference is made to our contributions to 
the Commission on pages 282 and 284 of the Commission Report. 
To indicate our continued interest, I call attention to the committee’s 1969 
annual meeting, which had as its main theme—‘“After the Stratton Commis- 
sion Report, What?” Copies of the proceedings of that meeting have been made 
available to each of you and to the conference participants. 
With me today is Dr. Chalmer G. Kirkbride, who testified before you previously 
in a personal capacity. Dr. Kirkbride is the Vice President (R&E) of Sun Oil 
Company and until April of this year, Chairman of OSTAC, and I might add, 
he is also a trustee of NSIA. 
It is now my pleasure to introduce the Chairman of the Executive Committee 
of the NSIA Ocean Science and Technology Committee, who will present our 
prepared statement. Mr. Amor L. Lane of American Machine and Foundry 
Company, and while on extended leave from AMF, was a full time member of 
the Stratton Commission Staff. 
Thank you. 
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA 
Dayton H. Clewell is a senior vice president of Mobil Oil Corporation and 
president of Mobil Research & Development Corporation. He is a native of 
Berwick, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. degree in 1933 and his Ph. D. degree 
in physics in 1936—both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
He was employed as a physicist by the C. K. Williams Company in Easton, 
Pa., from 1935 to 1938 and worked on the optical properties of pigments. In 
1938 he joined the Magnolia Petroleum Company (formerly the Southwest afiil- 
iate of Mobil) in the geological department, and worked on the development 
of oil prospecting instruments. 
