Start Date
4-1974 8:00 AM
Description
The Navy is the leading developer and user of undersea technology within the Federal government. This development is accomplished by a world wide network of laboratories and operational commands supported by contract efforts with civilian industry and academia.
Generally speaking, both Department of Defense and the commercial world attempt to maintain a three year competitive edge in hardware development. Accordingly, the successful developments which the Navy funds, regardless of the developing activity, are normally available for commercial exploitation within a relatively short space of time. As a matter of fact, about 80 per cent of the data and technology that we produce is unclassified and is available almost immediately to the potential user who has the knowledge and initiative to seek it out. However, the processes by which the fruits of these Navy efforts are transferred to the civilian sector are at least as complicated as the technologies being transferred.
Perhaps the most direct process is through the funding of industrial research and development efforts. In these cases the industry concerned is, in effect, subsidized to come up on the learning curve and to develop methodologies and techniques which, when released to the public, usually have application in the commercial world.
Navy's Undersea Technology Program: Marine Industries The Beneficiary
The Navy is the leading developer and user of undersea technology within the Federal government. This development is accomplished by a world wide network of laboratories and operational commands supported by contract efforts with civilian industry and academia.
Generally speaking, both Department of Defense and the commercial world attempt to maintain a three year competitive edge in hardware development. Accordingly, the successful developments which the Navy funds, regardless of the developing activity, are normally available for commercial exploitation within a relatively short space of time. As a matter of fact, about 80 per cent of the data and technology that we produce is unclassified and is available almost immediately to the potential user who has the knowledge and initiative to seek it out. However, the processes by which the fruits of these Navy efforts are transferred to the civilian sector are at least as complicated as the technologies being transferred.
Perhaps the most direct process is through the funding of industrial research and development efforts. In these cases the industry concerned is, in effect, subsidized to come up on the learning curve and to develop methodologies and techniques which, when released to the public, usually have application in the commercial world.
Comments
Marine Sciences
Session Chairman: O, D. Waters, Jr. Head of Oceanography Department, Florida Institute of Technology
Session Organizer: Edward H. Kalajian, Asst. Professor of Oceanography and Ocean Engineering Florida Institute of Technology
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