Well, not quite, ccapt. ODS was terminated in 1997 during the Clinton administration and the good Admiral was the maritime administrator. It was followed, of course, immediately by the MSP program.
While this is not an ODS string, I will say that ODS was quite good for the commercial companies as the differential paid was calculated on the difference in crew costs between each U.S. company’s ship crew and the foreign company(s) ship crew(s) that were on the same designated trade route. In the Pacific, this was a dramatic difference as generally the competition was Japanese, Chinese and Korean and on whose ships many of the crew was from the Philippines. On some routes the differential would come close to 75 to 80%. So good for company but pretty expensive for the government. The MSP program changed into a flat yearly payment, the same for any ship enrolled in MSP.
Herberger was a Navy Admiral and Hart was a lawyer, with 3 or 4 years service in the Air Force.