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Key Personnel

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Douglas Harrington, Associate Administrator for Strategic Sealift

Doug Harrington

Captain Harrington was appointed as Associate Administrator for Strategic Sealift in September 2024.

Within the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), his portfolio includes responsibility for commercial and federal sealift programs that provide for the Nation’s requirements during peacetime, civil contingencies, and wartime.

William "Bill" Paape, Associate Administrator for Ports and Waterways

William "Bill" Paape, a member of the Senior Executive Service, became the Associate Administrator for Ports & Waterways on June 7, 2020. In this capacity, Mr. Paape directs a national port infrastructure modernization program in excess of $2 billion. Discretionary grant port...

Elizabeth O'Connor, Chief Counsel

Elizabeth Bayly O’Connor serves as Chief Counsel to the Maritime Administration (MARAD). As a member of the senior leadership team, she leads the agency’s legal team in support of MARAD’s mission to foster, promote, and develop the maritime industry of the United States to advance the...

Cameron "Cam" V. Gore, Deputy Chief Counsel

Mr. Cameron “Cam” V. Gore serves as the Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) Deputy Chief Counsel.  With nearly three decades of public and private sector legal experience, Cam leads a team of attorneys committed to support MARAD’s programs, and initiatives to advance, promote,...

Brenna Jefferies, Director of Public Affairs

Brenna Jefferies serves as the Director of Public Affairs to the Maritime Administration (MARAD). As a member of the senior leadership team, she leads the department’s strategic communications programs to advance America’s maritime transportation infrastructure goals and inform the...

Jack Kammerer, MPA, MMAS

Executive Director Maritime Administration/MARAD  U.S. Department of Transportation      Mr. Gregory “Jack” Kammerer, a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), is the Executive Director of the Maritime Administration (MARAD). As the senior career, SES...

Executive Director

Gregory “Jack” Kammerer

Mr. Kammerer is a current Senior Executive Service member who began his federal government service in 2005 as an Army Senior Fellow serving in the role of the Director of Stakeholder Engagement in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for...