2025 PRG Meeting and Site Visit Schedule

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Appoints Sang H. Yi as Acting Maritime Administrator

Douglas Harrington, Associate Administrator for Strategic Sealift

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...

MAY INVENTORY 2025

The National Defense Reserve Fleet Inventory is a monthly federal property accounting report for vessels under the ownership or custody of MARAD. The report further officially assigns vessels to an Accountable MARAD Division. Produced and distributed by MAR-610, Office of Ship Operations, Fleet...

Sang H. Yi, Administrator (Acting)

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...

ICYMI: Website for the U.S. Center for Maritime Innovation is Live!

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration announces that the MARAD-supported U.S. Center for Maritime Innovation website went live on May 2, 2025.   The Center and its Secretariat, the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) will promote the study, research,...