The broad "base of support for the Engineering program comes 

 from Navy laboratories, industry and xmiversities. Seventy per- 

 cent of the money goes to private industry. 



The overall objective of the program is to give us the ability 

 to operate at any place and at any time within the oceans in sup- 

 port of our defense mission. 



Our third and largest program area is Oceanographic Operations. 

 It is at the $ll6 million level in Fiscal 1970. The work is car- 

 ried out through the Oceanographer ' s largest field activity, the 

 Naval Oceanographic Office and through the Commander of the Naval 

 Weather Service Command acting as Assistant Oceanographer for En- 

 vironmental Prediction Services. 



This program consists of oceanographic and hydrographic surveys 

 in all ocean areas and the dissemination of date to provide environ- 

 mental information, forecasts, charts and publications to support 

 such operations as Vietnam, POLARIS, ASW, Mine Warfare, Amphibious 

 operations and fleet activities in general. Our charts and other 

 publications are also supplied to the merchant marine, statutory 

 responsibility we have held since the early iSOO's. 



There is not time to even highlight Navy's efforts here. There 

 are our coastal surveys in Far East waters and in the Mediterranean. 

 Our deep ocean siirveys result in the collection of hundreds of thou- 

 sands of track miles of precise bathymetry, gravity, geomagnetic, 

 and sub -bottom seismic data annually. 



Since our last Symposium, a year ago, we have, to mention first 

 a few items: 



— Completed our hydrographic surveys along the coast of 

 South Vietnam. 



— Conducted almost one-half million miles of deep ocean bathy- 

 metry and geophysical data collection. 



— Conducted a major underwater acoustic experiment in the Pa- 

 cific called PARKA. I. This was part of a continuing and broader 

 project designed to establish the environmental factors which con- 

 trol long range sound transmission. 



-- Flown 200,000 miles of geomagnetic surveys. 



— Launched the NR-1, the nuclear propelled submersible I men- 

 tioned earlier. 



— Launched the Sea Cliff and Turtle, two new LAVIN-type deep 

 research vehicles with 6,500 foot depth capabilities. 



