Undersea Vehicles and National Needs (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Enhancing the Nation's Capacity for Undersea Work and Research
Enhancing the Nation's Capacity for Undersea Work and Research
Pages 76-81
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In Chapter 4, the committee built on these two assessments, proposing development priorities for each subsystem technology and each vehicle type, to improve the nation's ability to carry out missions addressing those needs. The nation's undersea vehicle capabilities have three vital components: · technology development and technology transfer by the private and public sectors to ensure that vehicles are capable of performing the missions required capital investment necessary to provide new vehicles and upgrade existing ones to meet identified national needs .
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The most notable of these include: the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, one of six NURP regional centers, which operates the 1,500-meter depth capability DSV Pisces V the private, nonprofit Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, which operates the DSVs Sea-Link 1 and Sea-Link 2 (both with 800-meters depth range) and the 350-meters DSV Clelia, for lease to research fund .
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Some commercial ROVs have been adapted to carry out scientific missions, with specialized sensor suites: a notable example is the ROV Ventana, operated by the private, nonprofit Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Newman and Robison, 1993~. An important exception to the private-sector ROV rule is the technology of deep-diving ROVs for research.
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In the next decade or so, with foreseeable advances in sensors, communications, and control, and energy supplies, as well as more efficient energy use, these vehicles will become fully capable scientific research vehicles. Because further development of AUV technology depends on public investment, the expected reductions in government research and development funding are likely to slow AUV development.
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Most prominent are the DSV Alvin and the ROV Medea-Jason, owned by the U.S. Navy but operated by a joint venture of NSF, NURP, and ONR at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; the DSVs Turtle and Sea Cliff and the ROV A TV, operated by the Navy's Submarine Development Group One; the DSV Pisces V, operated by NURP' s Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory; and several UNDERSEA VEHICLES AND NATIONAL NEEDS DSVs operated by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution for lease to researchers and others.
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World Technology Evaluation Center Panel Report on Submersibles and Marine Technologies in Russia's Far East and Siberia, in press. Baltimore, Maryland: Loyola College of Maryland, International Technology Research Institute.
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