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PrefaceThis report has been prepared for Dr. Paul Rispin, Office of Naval Research (ONR), as partof the research conducted by the Volpe Center in collaboration with the Center forCommercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT). The report, originallysubmitted in a Draft form on June 30, 2009, was intended to build on the multi-year researchconducted at the Volpe Center and the CCDoTT on Agile Port Systems and High-Speed Shiptechnologies to assess the feasibility of dual-use deployment of the vessels. The projectactivities included the demonstration of the feasibility of domestic container feeder ports fora transportation and logistics system based on a generic short sea vessel focusing on the WestCoast operations for both domestic and international traffic.This report has been prepared by the Dr. Bahar Barami, Intermodal Infrastructure Securityand Operations (RVT-51) and Mr. Mike Dyer, Infrastructure and Facility Engineering (RVT-63). Dr. Paul Rispin has authorized granting of a clearance for the report to be distributed tothe members of the Committee on Marine Transportation System (CMTS) and the IntegratedAction Team (IAT) for conducting and Assessment of the MTS. This revised version of thedraft report reflects comments received from the ONR project sponsors, comments sent onSeptember 10, 2009 by Tanya Rawson, Port and Intermodal Security Division, Departmentof Homeland Security, and comments sent by James Pugh, MARAD, on September 22, 2009.Rod Cook, Chief, Intermodal Infrastructure Security and Operations Division, provided peerreview comments and quality control input.ONR SSS Final Report 5