In 1985 he joined the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN),

attending the Naval Academy as a Midshipman. In 1992 he was

trained as a Principal Warfare Officer (PWO) and Air Defence

Officer (ADO) in the Dutch-Belgian Operational School,

specialising in artillery. He served as both PWO and ADO on

the guided missile frigates HNLMS DE RUYTER and HNLMS

TROMP, which participated in FOST and NATO Operation

SHARP GUARD; the embargo operation in the Adriatic

against former Yugoslavia. In 1996 he was employed for 2

years at the NATO Maritime Headquarters in Northwood (UK),

in the position of aide to the deputy CINCEASTLANT. . In 2012 he

returned to the Netherlands to become Assistant Chief of Staff

Plans to the Commander Netherlands Maritime Force. During

this assignment, he participated in several exercises (e.g.

JOINT WARRIOR) and served a term as N5 of CTF-465, on

board Landing Platform Dock HNLMS JOHAN DE WITT, in

the EU Anti-Piracy mission ATALANTA in the Somali Basin. In

2014 he transferred to the staff of Commander RNLN as a

Senior Policy Advisor. On 25 Aug 2016 he took command of

the Ocean-going Patrol Vessel HNLMS ZEELAND. With this

ship he conducted an intensive work-up period, including

FOST, after which he deployed for 4 months to the Caribbean

as the West-Indies Guard Ship. During this deployment the

ship was involved in several successful Counter-Drugs

operations and participated in emergency relief operations (as

a result of hurricanes Irma & Maria) on the islands of St.

Maarten and Dominica. In Sep 2018 he became a Senior

Staff Officer Cyber, EW and ISR at the MOD. In Oct 2019 he

moved to the Standing Joint Forces Headquarters, at

Northwood HQ (UK), as the ACOS Intelligence, subsequently

being promoted to Captain. He participated in deployments to

Martinique to assist in anti-COVID-measures in the Caribbean

and to Lithuania, as part of the Joint Expeditionary Force

Enhanced Forward Presence, as a result of the Ukrainian –

Russian war. In 2022 Captain Van der Kamp took the position

of Head of Maritime Projects of the Dutch Defence Material

Department.