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In FY 1967 additional buoys and allied equip- 

 ment ^\ii! be purchased for use in an integrated 

 network for physical oceanographic research. 



Naval Oceanographic Office 



FY 1965 -$5,689,000 

 FY 1966-14,513,000 

 FY 1967-14,683,000 



The Na\y's Oceanographic Instrimientation 

 Center will continue to support the Oceanographic 

 Office, other Na\v acti\ities, and the general 

 oceanographic community, in the de\elopment 

 and procurement of improved oceanographic re- 

 search and survey instruments and of related 

 hardware. Testing and e\aluation of oceano- 

 graphic instruments will continue with prototypes 

 being procured for laboratorv and field evaluation. 

 Funds will be used for the development of 

 standards, e\aluation, and support of in-house 

 personnel to carry out test and evaluation pro- 

 grams. The two year old evaluation program and 

 Instrtiment Fact Sheet distribution will be 

 expanded. 



The prototype Shipboard Survey System in- 

 stalled on the USNS SILAS BENT in FY 1966 will 

 be throughly evaluated and adjtisted for use at 

 sea. Integration of the ship's position input to 

 the system computer will be a major consideration 

 during FY 1967. 



The "ships-of-opportunit\"' developmental 

 program will be continued to equip commercial 

 and militarv vessels with a self-contained, portable 

 oceanographic instrimient package. These 

 packages can be operated bv crew members with- 

 out interference with the ship's assigned mission. 

 Data from the program will be recorded in a 

 formate stiitable for retrieval, processing, and 

 storage by the National Oceanographic Data 

 Center. There, it will be a\ailable to all interested 

 organizations. 



A "fail-safe" program has been initiated to 

 develop instrument recovery capability to mini- 

 mize the loss of expensive towed instruments. 

 If an instruinent is submerged significantly below 

 its operating depth a recovery derrick will cause 

 the instrument housing to become positively 

 buoyant thus returning it to the stirface for re- 

 covery. Follow-on planning provides for the de- 

 velo])ment of a familv of 'Tail-safe" de\ices for 



both shi]3-deployed and bouv-moimted systems. 

 Prototy]3e development, in cooperation with the 

 Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dalgren, Virginia, 

 is scheduled for completif)n earl\- in FY 1967. 



A sub-sinface buoy arra\ will be completed and 

 instrtmiented to measure and telemeter data on 

 the en\ironmental forces affecting the btiov, its 

 resulting motion, and the strain on the mooring 

 cable. Several existing buoy systems will be 

 similarh instrumented to provide comparable 

 data to aid prediction, performance, and improve- 

 ment of design criteria. 



Research and development acti\ity during the 

 coming year will include the development of an 

 airborne wa\e height meter, a sttidy of the sonar 

 equipment which pro\ides ocean floor profiles, 

 and studies of the propagation and attenuation 

 of sound and light in sea water. Results will form 

 a basis for the development of an expendable 

 telemetering instrument to relay information on 

 temperature, depth, soimd, \elocitv, and ocean 

 currents to fast mo\ing ships. 



The Center's cajjabilit)' to de\elop standards 

 and to test and e\aluate equipment will be 

 strengthened by adding to the testing facilities of 

 the environmental laboratorv. A low speed, flow 

 calibration tank using sea or fresh water w'ill 

 provide ciurent velocities of from 0.01 to 5.0 knots 

 to calibrate cinrent meters and to aid the de\ elop- 

 ment of improved cinrent measurement methods. 

 The salinity-temperature calibration system will 

 consist of a saline water tank equipped to heat, 

 cool, and agitate the water to insiue precise 

 temperatiue control; provision will be made for 

 the long term storage of water at five discrete 

 salinities. A lowerable platform will be installed in 

 the oceanographic test tank to facilitate testing 

 instriunents down to a depth of 60 feet. A dis- 

 solved oxygen test svstem, capable of accurately 

 measiuing the oxygen content in sea water, will 

 be used in evaluation of shipboard and in situ 

 de\ices. 



Advanced Research Projects Agency 



FY 1965-1910,000 

 FY 1966 -$500,000 

 FY 1967-$400,000 



By means of contracts through other govern- 

 ment agencies, the Achanced Research Projects 



