Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technology (CCDoTT)

The vision of the CCDoTT organization is to identify and act on innovative and transitional technical development efforts that will assist military planners in addressing their needs for rapid deployment and critical sustainment evolutions to meet national emergency situations.

The CCDoTT mission is to focus on maritime research and access to the greatest local resources and facilities dealing with the various technology sectors including:

• Agile Ports and Terminal Systems
• High-Speed Ship area
• Rapid Deployment, and
• Command and Control

CCDoTT is California State University, Long Beach sponsored, government approved and supported R&D center dealing with maritime-related transportation issues on behalf of both commercial and military interests. It was established in 1995 to address dual-use issues relating to emerging High-Speed Ships and their related Agile Port Systems. CCDoTT has since assumed an expanded role to also address the issues of Rapid Deployment, Decision Support Tools (Command & Control), and was involved with programs improving Security associated with marine related cargo movements before 9/11/2001. Additional efforts are now being directed towards the military interests and requirements associated with emerging Sea Basing support systems.

New Initiative

The Maritime Administration is also working with Strategic Mobility 21, the first successful spinoff program of the Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technology. Strategic Mobility 21 is the largest federally funded applied research program on the California State University Long Beach campus and is administered through the CSULB Foundation. The Strategic Mobility 21 program was established to demonstrate and transition dual use commercial and military agile port concepts at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville, CA. The base is multi-modal freight hub combining air, rail and truck movement in cooperation with the Southern California Logistics Airport and Rail Authority. The Maritime Administration is working with Strategic Mobility 21 to demonstrate in-transit visibility of freight movement throughout the Southern California region using cell phone and GPS tacking technology.

The objectives of the CCDoTT program include:

• Evaluation of problems, requirements and opportunities associated with commercial and military transportation issues.
• Development and implementation of marine related, dual-use technologies in support of commercial and military interests to enhance the competitive position of U.S. flag commercial carriers and related transportation interests.
• Oversight of select military and commercial program interdependency issues and required actions associated with technology transfer and project validation through the demonstration and operational implementation of dual-use marine related technologies.
• Linking University research capabilities to commercial and military research capacity to advance national transportation technology requirements.

Richard Walker, Director
Office of Infrastructure Development and Congestion Mitigation
Maritime Administration
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE (MAR-510, #W21-201)
Washington, DC 20590
Tel.: (202) 366-5474
Fax: (202) 366-6988
richard.walker@dot.gov