SCIENCEnet Collaborative Research Environment

该合同将为NSF提供电子邮件服务，供大约100个用户使用，以便NSF可以与美国和国际海洋科学界进行互动。SCIENCEnet是一个网络，目前大约有5000名科学家可以访问，其中包括美国的3000名海洋学家，以及包括南极洲在内的七大洲106个其他国家的科学家。SCIENCEnet将提供具有特殊选项的信息服务，包括传真、电传、不同安全级别和各种允许通过“公告板”和“邮件列表”系统自动分发信息的服务。

This contract will provide electronic mail services to NSF for use by about 100 users so that NSF may interact with both the U.S. and international ocean science community. SCIENCEnet is a network currently accessible to approximately 5,000 scientists including about 3,000 oceanographers throughout the United States, and 106 other countries on all seven continents including Antarctica. SCIENCEnet will provide message services with special options including FAX, Telex, varying levels of security and a variety of services which permit automatic distribution of messages via both "bulletin boards" an "mailing list" system.