Undersea Vehicles and National Needs (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Conclusions and Recommendations
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The vehicle technologies are generally mature enough to place the emphasis of technology advancement programs appropriately on systems integration. These mature technologies will permit systems like the following to be built: vehicles with endurance that can spend weeks on the bottom and are able to cover large areas of the bottom with high-resolution surveys, with sensor modules suited for varied missions AUVs designed to work in parallel with survey vessels, increasing the efficiency and accuracy of oceanographic sections and hydrographic surveys AUVs able to operate either under high-level human command or independent of human control for periods of months on data-gathering missions to provide detailed information about ocean dynamics, including physical, biological, and chemical processes Conclusion 5.
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Capital investment programs should take advantage of partnerships from leases of U.S.-certifiable foreign submersibles to joint development and use of new vehicles and support vessels with industry and foreign programs. The federal government should buy wholly new vehicles for civilian use only when other sources are not available and the national interest (as determined by the planning process recommended here)
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