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1AC—Solvency
Contention one is solvency ==== AUV development is inevitable, but Congress has to act promptly to authorize, appropriate and coordinate a comprehensive national program for it to work—that spurs P3s which streamline production and overcome previous barriers ==== FIND 14 – Federal information and news dispatch (FIND, “House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Hearing”, federal press release, [|http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2014/02/07/house-transportation-and-infrastructure-subcommittee-on-coast-guard-and-maritime-a-457472.html#.U6xpufmICQo], HW) The AUV's evolution is taking place at an amazing rate of change. At the AND . A new public-private partnership is the key to such success.

Only U.S. federal investment can catalyze private sector tech and R&D development
Avery, 13 —President and Director Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, June 11 2013 [Dr. Susan K., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Published June 11 2013, [] ] JB Frontiers in the Ocean Jim Cameron is a visionary who is capable of looking beyond AND that U.S. ocean science research will have around the globe.

Federal support is the seed for commercial spillover and widespread deployment
Avery, 14 — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President and Director, April 29 2014 [Susan K. Avery, April 29, 2014, “Driving Innovations through Federal Investments” United States Senate Committee on Appropriations Written Testimony, [] ] JB //Huge dividends from initial federal support// AND //for innovation and continues to enlarge the realm of the possible.//

1AC—REMs
Contention two is rare earth minerals

REMs depleting now– AUVs accesses new supplies which are key for the aerospace industry and high tech manufacturing and allow us to beat out China
Green 14 – Senior Editor-in-Chief at Robotics BusinessReview(Tom, 5-12-14, Robotics Business Review, “Deep Sea Dive for Rare Earth Elements”, http://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/article/deep_sea_dive_for_rare_earth_elements) After a year of falling prices and depleting customer inventories, buyers of Rare Earth AND with subsea robot mining tools built by technology partners like Soil Machine Dynamics.

Autonomous underwater vehicles key to inexpensive detection of mineral deposits AND new technology means surveys can be done quickly and accurately
Wiltshire 10 – Specialist at Ocean and Resources Engineering [J. C., "MINERAL EXTRACTION, AUTHIGENIC MINERALS." //Marine Policy & Economics: A Derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences//(2010): 274., Google Books, [|http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dqzXwFsOFMcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA274&dq=(%22Rare+Earth+Elements%22+OR+%22rare+earth+minerals%22)+AND+(%22autonomous+underwater+vehicles%22+OR+%22Autonomous+Benthic+Explorer%22)&ots=PIzchVTPjs&sig=C1I_dhR2fdZIW6VUSsl3m8t-n44#v=onepage&q&f=false], pg 276] The first step in minerals development is to find an economic mine site. This AND model to determine whether it is economically profitable to mine a given deposit.

China REM monopoly prevents US high tech manufacturing and causes all future development to offshore – US action is key now to win the race and cause reshoring
Hannis 12 – Senior fellow in defense studies at the American Foreign Policy Council (Eric, 11-20-12, US News, “Are We Losing the Race for Rare Earths?”, []) The United States, like most of the industrialized world, is currently engaged in AND alternative that will allow them a way out of the China relocation trap.

And that’s key to hegemony—

First, REM independence is key to weapons development and preserving hegemony
Hannis 12 - Senior fellow in defense studies at the American Foreign Policy Council (Eric, 11-20-12, US News, “Are We Losing the Race for Rare Earths?”, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2012/11/20/the-us-needs-rare-earth-independence-from-china) This race is also important for defense reasons: A reliable domestic source of rare AND that supplies much of our oil: Neither are getting friendlier to America.

Second, Manufacturing is key to defense technology that’s the foundation of military primacy
O'Hanlon 12 - Scholar at the Brookings Institution, (Michael, January 2012, The Brookings Institution, “The Arsenal of Democracy and How to Preserve It: Key Issues in Defense Industrial Policy”, [] )

The current wave of defense cuts is also different than past defense budget reductions in AND civilian and military export opportunities for the United States in a globalized marketplace.

The pursuit of hegemony is inevitable, sustainable, and prevents great power war
IBW 13 - Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul and the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College (John Ikenberry, Stephen G. Brooks, William C. Wohlforth, January/February 2013, Foreign Affairs, “Lean Forward: In Defense of American Engagement” http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138468/stephen-g-brooks-g-john-ikenberry-and-william-c-wohlforth/lean-forward) Of course, even if it is true that the costs of deep engagement fall AND an engaged and liberal leading power. The results could well be disastrous.

We control uniqueness, competition among states for relative status is inevitable—promoting US primacy is the only option
Second, I question the dominant view that status quo evaluations are relatively independent of AND in security and/or prosperity. Pg. 33-35//1ac
 * Wohlforth 09** – Professor of government @ Dartmouth College. [[|William C. Wohlforth], “Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War,” __World____Politics__, Volume 61, Number 1, January 2009]

1AC—Environment
Contention three is the environment

Current ocean exploration is woefully inadequate in climate data collection—AUVs are the key first step
McNutt 13 —Marcia, Executive Chair of Oceans 2020, a group of more than 110 ocean explorers gathered at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, “Accelerating Ocean Exploration” SCIENCE 341:937 (30 August 2013). Reprinted with permission from AAAS in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “The Report of Ocean Exploration Exploration 2020; A National Program,” July, []. Page 13-14 //BR Last month, a distinguished group of ocean researchers and explorers convened in Long Beach AND needs to happen now to provide a useful informational baseline for future decisions.

Specifically, AUVs are key to cold vent monitoring
Furlong 13 – Masters student, University of Victoria (Jonathan, “Characteristic Morphology, Backscatter, and Sub-seafloor Structures of Cold-Vents on the Northern Cascadia Margin from High-Resolution Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Data” UMI Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest) In this chapter I discuss visible surface features of cold vents and attempt to explain AND the examination of discrete cold vent communities to be extended into the subsurface.

And, methane seepage from cold vents trigger immediate climate tipping events that cause extinction
Furlong 13 – Masters student, University of Victoria (Jonathan, “Characteristic Morphology, Backscatter, and Sub-seafloor Structures of Cold-Vents on the Northern Cascadia Margin from High-Resolution Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Data” UMI Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest) The co-deposition of organic carbon with inorganic seafloor sediments is considered to remove AND 2008) or sourced from the continent (Etiope et al., 2008).

And, AUVs are key to understanding and mitigating several other huge environmental threats—oil spills, coral reefs and biodiversity loss
Bluefin 12 —AUV Technology Company, September 2012 [Bluefin robotics is a Battelle company who develops, builds, and operates Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related technologies for defense, commercial, and scientific customers worldwide, [], accessed 26 June 2014] JB Sampling and persistent monitoring of undersea habitats provide baseline information and important data characterizing change AND the southeast where other deep coral reef ecosystems are known to exist. n

And, Species diversity loss causes global extinction—we’re at the tipping point—crossing the threshold in the next 10 years makes it irreversible
Walsh 10 —Bryan, “ Wildlife: A Global Convention on Biodiversity Opens in Japan, But Can It Make a Difference?” Ecocentric Blog @ TIME, 10-18, [|http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/10/18/wildlife-a-global-convention-on-biodiversity-opens-in-japan-but-can-it-make-a-difference/#ixzz131wU6CSp]. //BR The story of non-human life on the planet Earth over the past few AND forgive us. We're losing nature. And that loss really is forever.

First, AUV’s key to bioprospecting- commercial scale and rapid assessment solves- the aff does both
Arico and Salpin 5 (Salvatore Arico, Senior Programme Specialist for Biodiversity Assessments and Inter-Agency Coordination at UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector, Charlotte Salpin, Legal Officer Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Office of Legal Affairs United Nations, “Bioprospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed: Scientific, Legal and Policy Aspects”, pg. 23, [] //nz) 3.4 Technological constraints and opportunities for deep seabed bioprospecting: Important technological considerations AND order to ensure that the costs of deep sea expeditions are adequately covered.

Second, Cold vents key to bioprospecting- AUV’s can find them
Moreau and van den Hove 7 (Vincent Moreau, Master's degree in Science and AND 2007, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, pg. 19 //nz) COLD SEEPS AND GAS HYDRATES Cold seeps are areas on the ocean floor where water AND a much more potent GHG than C02 (Krueger et at., 2003).

Third, retaining biodiversity creates a unique cost motive for bioprospecting
Sabal 7 Megan Sabal (M.A. Miami Ohio in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, “The Future of Marine Resources as Pharmaceutical Products” May 20, 2007 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CMOhsrVoJxIJ:jrscience.wcp.miamioh.edu/fieldcourses07/PapersMarineEcologyArticles/TheFutureofMarineResource.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a Coral Reefs have long been considered the rainforests of the oceans. This is a AND only a system can be created soon to preserve these wonderful marine ecosystems.

Ocean bioprospecting solves laundry list of impacts- disease, food security, and environmental destruction
Abida et al 13 (Heni Abida 1, Sandrine Ruchaud 2 , Laurent Rios 3 , Anne Humeau 4 , Ian Probert 5 , Colomban De Vargas 6 , Stéphane Bach 2, and Chris Bowler 1, Environmental and Evolutionary Genomics Section 1, Kinase Inhibitor Specialized Screening facility 2, Greentech France 3, Soliance France 4, Roscoff Culture Collection 5, EPPO Laboratory 6, “Bioprospecting Marine Plankton”, November 14, 2013, Marine Drugs, pg. 4595-4596 //nz)

As the world population expands and ages, we need to prepare to face new AND screening methodologies that have brought such molecules and/or strains to light. current food production is insufficient—security is key Connolly 14 (Marshall Connolly, staff writer for Catholic Online citing Japan science conference report, 4/1/14, “Global warming is inevitable: It’s time for a new ecology,” https://www.catholic.org/news/green/story.php?id=54780) The latest revelation from climate scientists is that they now believe global climate change as AND so far as to proclaim that "denial of the science is malpractice."

Food insecurity creates a vicious cycle that makes conflict inevitable-prefer new escalation model
¶ Food insecurity may play a role in sustaining conflict as¶ it becomes part AND government action could again trigger or¶ catalyze actions that could refuel conflicts.
 * Simmons 13** (Emmy, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “Harvesting Peace: Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation” @http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/HarvestingPeace.pdf)//JQ

Pandemics outweigh on probability and size
Zakaria, ‘5. Fareed, “A Threat Worse than Terror,” 10-31, Newsweek, []. A flu pandemic is the most dangerous threat the United States faces today," says AND for the first time. No such expertise exists for today's deadliest threat.

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