[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 8, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S1328]
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 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 92--APPLAUDING THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE 
   INSTRUMENTAL TO THE PROGRAM OF PARTNERSHIPS FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC AND 
    SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ACADEMIC 
   INSTITUTIONS DURING THE PERIOD BEGINNING BEFORE WORLD WAR II AND 
 CONTINUING THROUGH THE END OF THE COLD WAR, SUPPORTING EFFORTS BY THE 
  OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH TO HONOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS, AND EXPRESSING 
  APPRECIATION FOR THE ONGOING EFFORTS OF THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

  Mr. WARNER submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Armed Services:

                            S. Con. Res. 92

       Whereas the Navy and Marine Corps have always been vital to 
     the defense and security of the Nation;
       Whereas academic institutions and oceanographers made vital 
     contributions in support of the Navy and Marine Corps during 
     World War II;
       Whereas the great benefits of scientific research to the 
     efforts of the United States during World War II resulted in 
     an understanding that science and technology were of critical 
     importance to the future security of the Nation;
       Whereas Congress created the Office of Naval Research in 
     the Department of the Navy in 1946 to ensure the availability 
     of resources for research in oceanography and other fields 
     related to the missions of the Navy and Marine Corps;
       Whereas the Office of Naval Research, in addition to its 
     support of naval research within the Federal Government, has 
     also supported the conduct of oceanographic and scientific 
     research through partnerships with educational and scientific 
     institutions throughout the Nation; and
       Whereas these partnerships have long been recognized as 
     among the most innovative and productive research 
     partnerships ever established by the Federal Government and 
     have resulted in a vast improvement in understanding of basic 
     ocean processes and the development of new technologies 
     critical to the security and defense of the Nation: Now, 
     therefore, be it
       Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 
     concurring), That Congress--
       (1) applauds the commitment and dedication of the officers, 
     scientists, researchers, students, and administrators who 
     were instrumental to the program of partnerships for 
     oceanographic and scientific research between the Federal 
     Government and academic institutions, including those 
     individuals who helped forge that program before World War 
     II, implement it during World War II, and improve it 
     throughout the Cold War;
       (2) recognizes that the Nation, in ultimately prevailing in 
     the Cold War, relied to a significant extent on research 
     supported by, and technologies developed through, those 
     partnerships, and in particular on the superior understanding 
     of the ocean environment generated through that research;
       (3) supports efforts by the Director of the Office of Naval 
     Research to honor those individuals, who contributed so 
     greatly and unselfishly to the naval mission and the national 
     defense, through those partnerships during the period 
     beginning before World War II and continuing through the end 
     of the Cold War; and
       (4) expresses appreciation for the ongoing efforts of the 
     Office of Naval Research to support oceanographic and 
     scientific research and the development of researchers in 
     those fields, to ensure that such partnerships will continue 
     to make important contributions to the defense and the 
     general welfare of the Nation.

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