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John C. Stenni:
RESIDENT AGENCIES
The U.S. Navy is the largest resident agency at the Center.The Commander, Naval Oceanography Command, administers a world-wide organization whose mission is to provide oceanographic, meteorological and mapping, charting and geodetic support services to fleet forces operating across the globe.
The Naval Oceanographic Office is the largest single component of the Naval Oceanography Command. Information collected by this office is published and distributed to the fleet and to civilian maritime interests.
NOARL, the Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Laboratory, was established to be the principal Navy corporate laboratory performing oceanographic and atmospheric environmental research.
The Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant is the nation’s newest and most sophisticated munitions manufacturing facility. It is designed to produce the complete round of the 155mm M483A1 projectile for the U.S. Army and NATO allies.
The U.S. Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command conducts extensive research and testing on explosive and hazardous materials.
During the transition between the Saturn and Space Shui Today, federal and state agencies engage in oceanogri
The National Data Buoy Center is a part of the National Weather Service, an agency in the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NDBC collects environmental data from moored buoys in remote marine and coastal waters.
The National Marine Fisheries Service is responsible for providing information for assessment, management, and conservation of living marine resources in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and south Atlantic Ocean.
The U.S. Geological Survey is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and archiving hydrologic data needed to plan, develop, and manage the nation’s water resources.
The USGS facilities include an indoor hydraulic lab and a 30-acre outdoor flood plain simulator.