Bruce,

What happens after the data ends up in the computer in the locked cage is something I'm not familiar with. Based on the article it sounds like someone reviews it and then 95% is released back into the public venue after the fact.

Rick

Dick:

Thank you for the additional info.

I should have previously noted that since most of the data in those two US nuc pubs ONI produced circa 1991 came from the System, and included significant info the Model Basin was not aware of, the data under discussion should be reviewed for the same purpose as was done so extensively by ONI from the 1960s through at least the early 2000s to the great benefit of our noise reduction programs.

Let's hope that if "someone" is still performing that function, these data will be exploited. For many years, it was a synergistic relationship with information recovered also being very usefully applied to the System's primary mission.

The US data provided what might be called a "controlled" (known) condition and defined what might be expected under such specific conditions.

It would be very sad if such potentially useful data - often a Rosetta Stone - was not still being fully exploited.

Bruce