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Maritime Administration - State Maritime Schools

The purpose of the State Maritime School program is to partner with the six State maritime academies to produce highly qualified commissioned officers to replenish the nation's supply of skilled merchant mariners. Federal support involves direct payments to the schools, tuition aid and maintenance of training vessels.

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PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The State Maritime School program effectively targets Federal resources in a well-defined, cost-shared partnership with the State maritime academies to produce highly qualified officers for the US merchant marine. Of the 370 graduates in 2005, 29 accepted tuition aid stipends requiring post-graduate commitments for maritime industry employment and active military revervist status.
  • Budget requests need to be more explicitly tied to the accomplishment of performance goals. The program must better demonstrate improved effectiveness from year to year with emphasis on supplementary performance measures identified in the PART.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Producing performance-based budget materials for the State maritime schools portion of future budgets.
  • Reporting annually on existing efficiency measure results by early October of each fiscal year.

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