-- Let the contract for oiir first catamaran hull research ship, 

 to Todd Shipyard here in Seattle. 



-- Taken delivery on two new survey and two new research ships. 



Looking ahead to Fiscal Year 1970 I can think of these items: 



--We will have two new ships ready to turn over to universities 

 in support of Navy' s science program, and our four ships delivered 

 in 1969 will commence operational surveys and support of Navy Lab- 

 oratory research here on the West Coast. 



-- Our nuclear submersible will commence its shakedown, which 

 will include scientific cruises, and we will launch oior first two 

 DSRV's. 



-- If all goes well with our f"unding request to the Congress, 

 we will procure a new aircraft to replace our two old ones engag- 

 ed in airborne magnetic surveys. 



— And we will receive our first funding for our newly estab- 

 lished National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center. This center 

 will use an existing Navy facility and will expand to provide in- 

 str-ument development and reliability reference services, test and 

 evaluation data and calibration facilities for industry and non- 

 military Federal agencies. 



-- Our newly developed unmanned recovery vehicle CUEV III, a 

 7,000' version of the device which recovered the ■unanned nuclear 

 weapon off Palomaris, will become operational. 



In the present financial climate we can hope for only a mini- 

 mum of new starts. In fact the only significant increase in pro- 

 gram dollars will go to the development of a DSSV, a deep sub- 

 mergence vehicle designed to do many useful tasks down to a depth 

 of 20,000 feet. 



In general our emphasis in the coming year will be on Deep Sub- 

 mergence, Biomedicine and Deep Ocean Technology. 



This is about all I can tell you in the time allotted me. The 

 rest you can get from the experts assembled here. 



I will conclude by inviting you all to the 7"tti Symposium on 

 Military Oceanography to be held at the U.S. Naval Academy on 12, 

 13 and ik May 1970. Your host will be the Naval Ship Research and 

 Development Center. 



Annapolis can also be a pleasant place in the Spring. 



