Talk:AUTEC - Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

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Isn't this uh... a little classified-ish?

(Please follow the rules and sign your post ABOVE).Wikited (talk) 16:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No, not classified

Nothing on the AUTEC page is classified; you can find all the same information on AUTEC on public U.S. Navy RFQ's, NAVSEA and NUSC presentations, and on contractor advertising, classified ads, job postings, brochures, handouts, unclassified reports, people's resumes, etc. Bear in mind that in America you have a right to know what the government is doing, unless it reduces that information to a scrap of paper or other data stamped "secret" or "confidential."

The next time you track a sub at AUTEC, check the ops plan, the program plan, post-test reports, and other paperwork associated with the mission, and it is rare that any of that information is stamped clasified. It is instead thrown into the trash after the test or mission is completed because, in the case of AUTEC, there is no official provision in the contract to save all -- repeat all -not counting the DCAS stuff --- data and return it to the Government on contract expiration.

AUTEC teaches submarine commanders to do the stuff you see in the movie "The Hunt for Red October" -- Should that film be classified?Wikited (talk) 16:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)