Assistance program
State Maritime Schools
$271.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Maritime Administration, Transportation, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Direct Payments for Specified Use;Use of Property, Facilities, and Equipment;Training
- CFDA number
- 20.806
- What it does
- To educate and train future merchant marine officers at the State Maritime Academies (SMA). The education and training of these students prepares them to graduate and enter the maritime industry in numerous capacities, including crewing merchant vessels, maritime opportunities ashore and also to be available during national emergencies or contingencies.
- Who benefits
- Students, meeting eligibility requirements.
- Who applies
- State institutions of higher education. Assistance is limited to one maritime academy in any one State.
- Authorized by
- Maritime Education and Training Act of 1936
- Program site
- http://www.dot.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$88.1M
32%
Grants
$183.4M
68%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments