Undersea Vehicles and National Needs (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Recent oceanographic and geologic discoveries of immense significance made while using undersea vehicles, such as the stunning discovery of hydrothermal vents at midocean plate boundaries with associated chemosynthetic food chains, are tantalizing examples of how much more there is to learn about the sea. Advances in guidance and control, communications, sensors, and other technologies for undersea vehicles offer an opportunity for a great leap in understanding the ocean engine.
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Navy oversees the Alvin and Medea-Jason vehicle facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and, as an added task, reviews proposals for the use of these vehicles as well as other governmentowned vehicle assets used in nonmilitary research. The Deep Submergence Science Committee also assists in scheduling scientific missions using these assets.
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Many scientific and technical fields are strongly dependent on undersea vehicles. Fundamental studies of deep ocean trenches, spreading centers, and faults using undersea vehicles have helped confirm and elaborate the theory of plate tectonics.
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The technologies were ranked either "greatest potential" or "high potential." This sifting process revealed that three of the critical subsystem technologies offer the greatest potential for significant improvement in undersea vehicle performance and significant contributions to national needs: · ocean sensors (acoustic, optical, and chemical) · undersea communications (particularly digital acoustic methods)
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The United States has no concerted program; instead it has a number of informally coordinated programs and no disciplined mechanism for long-term planning. The financial disjunction between users and the federal providers of undersea vehicles in some cases impedes coordination.
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Stable funding should be provided for vehicles, the nation should maintain the pluralism of the those undersea vehicle systems that are viewed as national present approach with a variety of funding agencies. The assets.
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