TRENDS IN THE NAVY OCEAWOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 



by 



Commander John C. Fry, USN 

 Office of the Chief of Naval Operations^ Washington^ D. C. 2039O 



Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege for me to have 

 the opportunity this morning to present "Trends in the Navy Oceanographic 

 Program" which, hroadly speaking, should set the stage for a discussion of 

 scientific and technical achievements 1;o follov throughout this meeting. 



Figure 1 shows the budget for the total Navy oceanographic program 

 compared year "by year with the total national oceanographic program, which 

 is coordinated by the Interagency Committee on Oceanography. The Navy 

 includes only its unclassified programs in the national oceanographic pro- 

 gram, and this is shown as the shaded area of these bars . During this 

 period the Navy portion of the ICO program has decreased from roughly 60 

 percent of the total Navy program to about 50 percent this year, which 

 reflects a relative increase in classified operations. If classified Navy 

 programs were to be included, the national oceanographic budget would be 

 increased by more than kO percent, and, as it stands now, the doubling time 

 of the Navy program is roughly k years, a rate somewhat greater than 10 

 percent per year. 



Figure 2 shows how FY 1966 funds, if appropriated by the Congress, will 

 be balanced among participants in the Navy's oceanographic program and 

 applied to new ship construction: 23 percent of the total to the Office 

 of Naval Research, ij-8 percent to the U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office, 8 

 percent to the Bureau of Ships, about 1 percent to the Bureau of Naval 

 Weapons, less than 1 percent to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and 19 

 percent for ship construction. The ship construction funds are intended 

 for two AGORs for the Office of Naval Research and one large hydrographic 

 surveying ship for the Naval Oceanographic Office. 



I would also like to show by Figure 3 how FY 1966 funds will be bal- 

 anced among the appropriation categories: 38 percent for research, 

 development, test and engineering; 32 percent for operations and mainte- 

 nance; 19 percent for ship construction; h percent for other procurement; 

 and 6 percent for military personnel. 



A complementary document to the Navy's long range plan for oceanog- 

 raphy, TENOC, is the Navy Oceanographic Program Summary , pictured in 

 Figure k, which has been prepared by the Office of the Oceanographer of 

 the Navy to aid in program analysis and planning. This summary gives a 

 brief resume of all tasks included within the Navy oceanographic program, 

 defining their objective, approach, progress, plans, and keywords to aid 



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