YEAR OF PLANS AND PROGRESS 



The project has now been in existence over a year. For the 

 first few months, the Project Office was supported by available 

 reprogrammed funds within the Coast Guard. The primary activities 

 centered arovind organization, staffing, development of system 

 planning, programming and budgeting, and continuation of follow- 

 on studies to amplify the initial Feasibility Study [Reference l]. 



As you remember, the general Federal budget reduction in Fiscal 

 Year I969 precluded a full-scale start of the development program. 

 Funds in the amount of $580,000 were reprogrammed from within the 

 Coast Guard Research and Development appropriation to sustain the 

 project after Congress deferred funding of the project without 

 prejudice. With these resources we were able to perform selected 

 activities incident to concept formulation in Fiscal Year 1969* 

 Needless to say, the budgetary situation for Fiscal Year 1970 is 

 still uncertain. The portion of the plcinned program the project 

 will be able to execute the coming year will be determined by 

 the present budgetary decisions and subsequent congressional 

 action. 



Despite the relatively low-level project funding to date, 

 however, significant steps have been taken this past year. They 

 encompass systems planning and investigations through in-house, 

 contractual and cooperative efforts. I will briefly touch on 

 twelve of these activities. 



(1) System planning embracing the "user-producer" 

 dialogue of the RDT&E process has been initiated. The Prelimi - 

 nary Concept Formulation Summary document [Reference 11] issued 

 by the Project Office outlines the factors involved in the devel- 

 opment task, an approach to the problem and general plans for 

 concept formtilation. It also promulgated a Tentative Specific 

 Operational Requirement TSOR. 



(2) Under contract to the Project Office, the Travelers 

 Research Corporation has completed additional work consisting of: 



...Refined national marine environmental data require- 

 ments [Reference 12]. 



...Computer progreims for simulation and cost models 

 [Reference I3]. 



...Simulation models of the operations involved in the 

 deployment and maintensince of buoy networks [Refer- 

 ence 14] . 



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