INTRODUCTION 
This report on ocean data resources has been prepared in response 
to a request from the National Ocean Policy sider of the U.S, Senate 
to the Interagency Committee on Marine Science and Wneineering. 
The report lists the locations, principal contacts, capabilities, and 
facilities involved with ocean data, While the request was directod 
toward information on Federal agency activities, similar information 
on State and regional activities, academic institutions, industry, and 
nonprofit organizations have also been included to provide a perspec= 
tive in rolating Iedoeral ocean data activities within the overall 
national ocean data effort. It must also be noted that the report 
addresses itself primarily to data management activities; it does not 
include the significant efforts involved in the actual acquisition of 
ocean data through research and survey. 
In compiling the list of industries and nonprofit organizations, 267 
wore solocted from a review of somo 600 marino-orionted organizations 
as representing significant capabilities im ocean data collection, 
processing, or analysis. Companies engaged primarily in hardware 
manufacture or salos are not included. 
Ansrracr or Fnpopran Aannetns’ Parricieation In Ochan Data 
PROGRAMS 
DHPARTMHNT OF DEFHNSD 
Department of Defense ocean programs support both military and 
civil purposes. ‘The programs of the Navy, the Defense Mapping 
Agency, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency are directed to 
mooting military requirements. ‘The marine programs of the Army 
Corps of Mngineers fall in the civil works category. 
Rady ocean science, engineering, and operational programs are 
conducted at academic institutions, Navy research Jaboratories and 
installations, private research Jaboratorios, and industrial organiza- 
tions. ‘The Navy participates in cooperative programs wherever 
possible and beneficial to Navy needs. This includes both domestic 
and foreign oceanographic programs where pooling of resources can 
provide results normally not available to a single agonecy. 
Although the Navy is both producer and consumer of its own 
efforts in oceanography, it arnt be much of the data and technology 
used by the civil sector, Conservatively, about 90 percent of the 
Navy ocean program is unclassified and can therefore be made 
available promptly to meot civil requirements. 
The Naval Weather Service Command provides oceanographie 
prediction services to military forces. Many of these services are 
adaptable to, and are used for, civilian purposes, The Naval Weather 
Service Command comprises four computer equipped leet Weather 
Centrals—Guam, Pearl Ilarbor, Norfolk, and Nota, each having areas 
of responsibility, within which each collects environmental observire 
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