If we make this abrmdantly clear, and, at the same time, emphasize that the 

 Navy is actively interested in the growth of effective ocean programs in 

 other agencies, I feel that concern over a national program can be eventually 

 eliminated. 



What should we do within the Navy? One easy suggestion might be to 

 collect all the Navy's oceanographic activities under one command. This 

 unfortunately would make as little sense as collecting all the Nation's 

 marine activities under one agency. As ocean science is vital to the mission 

 of various federal agencies in a variety of ways, so it is vital in a variety 

 of ways to the mission of the many branches of the Navy, 



Basic research in the science of the sea has a long range bearing upon 

 every part of the Navy and is rightly separated organizationally from branches 

 with operational missions and is overseen by the Chief of Naval Research, 



The Navy's bureau must pxipsue applied research as it bears upon their 

 missions of providing the hulls, facilities, and weapons systems required by 

 the Fleet, 



The Navy laboratories, each with its own mission in applied research to 

 back up development projects, must do this research within the real ocean 

 emd thus with a direct understanding of it. 



Finally, the Fleet must be provided with, and have a competence to use, 

 the best possible environmental information in order to maximize its 

 effectiveness. 



The Navy is well organized for all these functions and its oceanographic 

 activities are in the hands of officers and civilian scientists of clear 

 capabilities. Nevertheless, I can identify three possible shortcomings to 

 which we must continue to give attention. 



We do not have sufficient in-house competence for advanced environmental 

 research. We do, however, sponsor the work of many of the world's best 

 scientists in the universities sind nonprofit laboratories. 



In spite of much effort we are not doing as much as we should to famil- 

 iarize our future admirals with ocean science and technology. Barely 

 stiff icient for today's Navy perhaps, but not for the vastly more complex 

 Navy of the futvire. We do have the beginnings of an excellent program at the 

 Navy Postgrad\iate School that is addressing itself to this problem and we 

 must do much more. 



There are shortcomings in communication between our own establishments 

 and with the outside, Basic research is not always well communicated to the 

 applied laboratories or applied research to the bureau developments or to 

 operating forces, A bright point is the success of the Oceanographer in 

 providing environmental information to the Fleet, 



