hydrographic survey techniques, the improvement of procedures and equipment 

 for the efficient printing and distribution of nautical charts and publica- 

 tions, and development of the Antisubmarine Warfare Environmental Prediction 

 System. 



Figure 7 presents a comparison of the Navy and national survey programs. 

 Broadly speaking, the surveys performed by the Naval Oceanographic Office 

 fall into four categories. First, Inshore Surveys are conducted in overseas 

 areas to support amphibious and mine warfare training and operational plann- 

 ing. 



Second, Strategic Coastal Surveys are performed to meet requirements of 

 the Defense Intelligence Agency for improved nautical charts. 



Third, Project Surveys, required to obtain data for the development, 

 installation, and operation of underseas systems. Several examples of these 

 are the oceanographic surveys required for Project CAESAR; for COLOSSUS I; 

 for AUTEC; for the Pacific Missile Range; and for nuclear submarine opera- 

 tions . 



As the Navy's program in oceanography expands, a greater number of naval 

 officers subspecializing in this field will be needed. To obtain these 

 officers a new course in oceanography has been established at the Naval Post- 

 graduate School in Monterey and the annual input of naval officer students 

 is being increased from 12 in FY I965 to 2k this year, and may "be further 

 increased to kO by 1968 as shown in Figure 8. At the same time the graduate 

 students will be distributed differently: half of them will attend major 

 graduate schools in oceanography and the remaining half will attend the 

 course at Monterey. For example in the fall of 19^5^ 12 naval officers will 

 enter the program at Monterey, and 12 will enter graduate schools in oceanog- 

 raphy at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Texas A&M, the University 

 of Washington, and the Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of 

 Miami. In addition, an introductory course in oceanography has been estab- 

 lished for all midshipmen at the U. S. Naval Academy in their first year, 

 and they can now concentrate in the field of environmental , sciences their • 

 last two years. 



When we take a broad view of the Navy's oceanographic program, as we 

 must at least annually, it is most essential to re -evaluate its objectives, 

 its balance and emphasis, and most importantly the opportunities it offers 

 to contribute substantially to naval progress and the tangible national 

 goals established for marine science and technology. We have done this, 

 and are convinced the program is essentially sound. It is a program that 

 has increased in funding by a factor of 6 in the past ten years; it has 

 more than doubled in the last five years. Its growth rate is nearly twice 

 that of the federal research and development program. It has provided 5 

 new construction oceanographic ships in the past k years, and 9 more have 

 been authorized and funded. It has greatly accelerated research and devel- 

 opment within the Navy and its laboratories, within industry, and within 



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