Workshop on Near-Land Shallow and Deep Ocean Research and Development in the Context of SFOMC, Boca Raton, Florida, March 1999

9903866 Dunn 30多年来，海军一直在佛罗里达州南部运营南佛罗里达测试设施(SFTF)。该地点位于美国海岸最接近墨西哥湾流的位置，其独特之处在于它可以接近陆地的浅水和深水。最近，佛罗里达大西洋大学在SFTF水下靶场的南端获得了一个岸边工程实验室。该部门以海洋传感器、声学和海上车辆为重点，与NSWC-CD设施具有天然的协同作用。这些因素，他们利益的自然一致性，以及来自迈阿密大学(UM-RASMAS)、南佛罗里达大学海洋科学系、迈阿密NOAA-AOML和海港分部的强烈利益方的加入，使一个财团在1997年初聚集在一起。该联合体包括工作人员、设备、运营支持和设施的贡献。特别是，设施包括SFTF水下试验场以及NSU、FAU和NSRDC-CD的陆地校园资源。这一伙伴关系创造的潜力导致通过ONR提供特别资金，以支持SFTF离岸靶场仪器的具体改进，并支持旨在利用该地区特点的一系列示范科学和技术开发计划。本质上，这是一个检验SFOMC概念的有效性以及感兴趣的学术界如何使用这一范围的计划。在这里，该计划试图通过一个研讨会来加强这一独特的努力，以讨论这种合作努力的好处、挑战、推动力和潜在结果。讲习班的重点将是SFOMC适合处理的技术和科学问题，以及SFOMC的组织和运作方式，以便充分发挥其潜力。此外，讲习班的目的将是酌情概括讲习班的结论，以便总结对潜在的类似努力有价值的经验教训。研讨会的结果将是一份广泛分发的报告，其依据是与会者在研讨会期间产生的调查结果。

9903866DunnFor over 30 years the Navy has operated the South Florida Test Facility (SFTF) in south Florida. Located at the closest position to the Gulf Stream along the US coast, the site is unique in its access to both shallow and deep water very near to a land. More recently, Florida Atlantic University gained a shore side engineering laboratory at the south end of the SFTF underwater range. With an emphasis on ocean sensors, acoustics and marine vehicles, the department has a natural synergy with NSWC-CD facility. These factors, the natural congruency of their interests, and the inclusion of strongly interested parties from the University of Miami (UM-RASMAS), the University of South Florida's Department of Marine Science, NOAA-AOML in Miami, and Harbor Branch brought a consortium together in early 1997. Included in this consortium are contributions of staff, equipment, operating support, and facilities. In particular, the facilities include the SFTF underwater test range as well as the land campus resources of NSU, FAU, and NSRDC-CD. The potential that this partnership created resulted in special funding being provided through ONR to support specific enhancements to the SFTF off-shore range instrumentation and to support a series of demonstration scientific and technology development programs designed to take advantage of the features of the area. In essence this was a program to examine the efficacy of the SFOMC concept and how this range can be used by the interested academic community.The program herein seeks to strengthen this unique effort through a workshop to discuss the benefits, challenges, thrusts, and potential results of this collaborative endeavor. The focus of the workshop will be on the technological and scientific issues that SFOMC is suited to address as well as the manner in which SFOMC should best be organized and operated in order to realize its full potential. In addition, it will be the purpose of the workshop to generalize the findings of the workshop where appropriate so as to derive lessons that can have value for potential similar efforts. The result of the workshop will e a widely distributed report based on findings generated during the workshop by the participants.