DOT Agencies and Small Business Specialists

Below is a listing of Small Business specialists under DOT’s Procurement Assistance Division in
each agency whose primary role is to help small businesses.  Follow the links provided in the
title of each OA to learn more about its mission within DOT.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

www.faa.gov
The FAA mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world,
and a vision to improve the safety and efficiency of aviation, while being responsive to
their customers and accountable to the public.

Inez Williams
800 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 715
Washington, DC 20591
Phone: (202) 267-8881 Email: inez.williams@faa.gov

Fred Dendy
800 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 715
Washington, DC 20591
Phone: (202) 267-7454 Email: fred.dendy@faa.gov

• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

www.fhwa.dot.gov
FHWA is charged with the broad responsibility of ensuring that America’s roads and
highways continue to be the safest and most technologically up-to-date.

Frank Waltos
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE , Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-4205 Email: frank.waltos@fhwa.dot.gov

• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA)
  ww.fmcsa.dot.gov
  FMSCA is focused on reducing crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large truck and
  buses.

Cecelia Royster
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 385-2311 Email: cecelia.royster@dot.gov

• Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
  www.fra.dot.gov
  The FRA promulgates and enforces rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance
  programs; conducts research and development in support of improved railroad safety and
  national rail Transportation policy.

Charles Nurse
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590
Phone: 202-493-6130 Email: charles.nurse@dot.go

• Federal Transit Administration (FTA )
  www.fta.dot.gov
  The Federal Transit Administration administers federal funding to support a variety of
  locally planned, constructed, and operated public transportation systems throughout the
  U.S., including buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, streetcars, monorail, passenger
  ferry boats, inclined railways, and people movers.

Ledra Post
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-2502 Email: ledra.post@dot.gov

• Ational Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
  www.nhtsa.dot.gov
  Save lives, prevent injuries and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes,
  through education, research, safety standards and enforcement activity.
  
  Lloyd Blackwell
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE , Washington, DC 20590
  Phone: (202) 366-9564 Email: lloyd.blackwell@nhtsa.dot.gov
• 
  Maritime Administration (MARAD)
  www.marad.dot.gov
  To improve and strengthen the U.S. marine transportation system – including
  infrastructure, industry and labor – to meet the economic and security needs of the
  Nation.

Rita C. Thomas
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-2802 Email: rita.thomas@dot.gov

• Office of the Secretary (OST)
  www.dot.gov/ost
  The Office of the Secretary (OST) oversees the formulation of national transportation
  policy and promotes intermodal transportation.
  

Phaedra Johnson
Office of the Secretary, Acquisition Services Division
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-0742         Email: phaedra.johnson@dot.gov

• Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
  www.phmsa.dot.gov
  PHMSA is responsible for the safe and secure movement of hazardous materials to
  industry and consumers by all transportation modes, including the nation’s pipelines.

Eric Hilton
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, East Building, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20590
Phone: (202) 366-3845 Email: eric.hilton@dot.gov

• Research and Innovative Technology Administration/Volpe
  www.volpe.dot.gov/index.html
  Coordinates DOT’s research programs and is charged with advancing the deployment of
  cross-cutting technologies to improve our Nation’s transportation system.

Kristen Laggis Pedroli
Acquisition Management Division, RTV-6D
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
55 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 494-2389 Email: kristen.pedroli@volpe.dot.gov

Small Business Innovation Research Program
www.volpe.dot.gov/sbir
Joseph Henebury
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
55 Broadway , Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 494-2051 Email: joseph.d.henebury@volpe.dot.gov

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC)
www.seaway.dot.gov

Extending from Montreal to Lake Erie, the SLS is a series of locks canals and channels
linking the Atlantic Ocean and St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and the four upper great lakes.

Patricia White
P.O. Box 520, Massena, NY 13662
Phone: (315) 764-3236 Email: patricia.white@sls.dot.gov

• Small Business Administration Procurement Center Representative (PCR)
  Annette Merrion
  Phone: (202) 366-9142 Email: (202) 366-7228
  Email: Annette.merion@dot.gov