Working Groups and Panels

Technical Working Groups

These working groups focus on specific technical areas associated with Center strategic priorities, and the number of types of working groups will change of time with changing Center strategic priorities. These working groups will be open for all stakeholders having an interest to participate, and each working group will strive to engage and collaborate with any other similar working groups under other organizations.

Maritime Energy

  • Energy Efficiency & Operational Optimization

  • Vessel Electrification

  • Maritime Advanced Nuclear

  • Integrated Port Energy

  • Maritime Fuels and Energy Technology

Maritime Operations

  • Remote & Autonomous Functions

  • Digitalization of Maritime Operations

  • Transportation Corridors & Freight Flow Optimization

U.S. Maritime Competitiveness

  • Ship construction and Sustainment

  • Education & Workforce Development

  • U.S. Maritime Strategy

  • Northeast/ Mid-Atlantic Coast

  • South Coast / Caribbean

  • Gulf / Gulf Coast

  • Inland Waterways

  • Great Lakes / St. Lawrence Seaway

  • Pacific Northwest / Alaska

  • California Coast

  • Pacific Islands

Consultative Panels

These invited participant panels provide road input and feedback to help provides ideas on the direction of the USCMI, but not having any decision responsibility or authority.  

Maritime Resilience

  • Vessel-generated Underwater Radiated Noise

  • Ship Mediated Aquatic Nuisance Species

  • Emerging Pollution Issues

  • Marine Transportation System Risks

Regional Working Groups

These working groups focus on identifying and communicating regional priorities among stakeholder communities to the USCMI. The types of MTS issues and associated research priorities are often quite different around the country, and the regional working groups provide a mechanism for regional stakeholders to communicate their unique issue to the USCMI. These working groups will be open to all stakeholders having an interest to participate, and each working group will strive to engage and collaborate with any other similar working groups under other organizations.

  • Government Interagency

  • Non-Governmental

  • State, Local, Tribal, Territorial (SLTT)