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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This study has benefited from the comments, suggestions, and cor-rections provided by several colleagues over the course of its devel-opment. Of particular importance were contributions by ThomasAhlfeld, Department of Interior; Timothy Boyd, Oregon State Uni-versity; Garrett Brass, Arctic Research Commission; Jeff Cohen, NavalUnderwater Warfare Center; Dennis Conlon, Office of NavalResearch; Captain Chris Gunderson, U.S. Naval Observatory; JohnHaines, U.S. Geological Survey; Pete Johnson, National ResearchCouncil; Charles Langmuir, Columbia University; Rear Admiral (ret)Michael McDevitt, Center for Naval Analyses; Sujata Millick, Office ofNaval Research; George Newton, Arctic Research Consortium; PaulPan, Environmental Protection Agency; Rear Admiral P. J. Ryan, U.S.Atlantic Fleet; Gene Smith, National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration; and Cindy Van Dover, College of William and Mary.
Design teams from NAVSEA, Newport News, and Electric Boat wereessential to the success of the study. We also thank the Office ofNaval Intelligence and former officers in charge of the NR-1, includ-ing Captains Don Randall and Dave Olivier and Vice Admiral E. P.Giambastiani, for their insights. We also thank the Woods HoleOceanographic Institute. Several RAND colleagues, including JimBonomo, Bruce Berkowitz, Martin Libicki, Kevin O’Connell, andMike Wermuth, provided valuable insight and analysis.
This study was formally reviewed by Ashton Carter of Harvard Uni-versity and by Elliot Axelband of the University of Southern Califor-nia. We have included as many of their comments and suggestionsas possible. Jeffrey Sands of MITRE Corporation provided assistance
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during the first military conference, and Peter Vogt of NRL contrib-uted valuable insights into several scientific issues. Mario Bagagliocontributed to this study as well. Audrey Caudle provided logisticaland administrative support and helped to pull together many of thereport’s charts and graphs.
However, the information, judgments, analyses, and recommenda-tions contained in this study are entirely the responsibility of theauthors.