The Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration awarded a $1.015 million firm fixed price task order to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, doing business as Virginia Tech. The task order is in support of crash safety analysis of automated driving systems via an open benchmarking methodology. Virginia Tech will analyze automated vehicle crash data to advance the agency's understanding of advanced driver assistance systems safety. Smartdrive...
This is a task order awarded under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Vehicle Electronic Systems Safety Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The $830,939 firm-fixed price task order was awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research on lane keeping systems. The study will involve identifying real-world critical scenarios, characterizing key system parameter effects, and evaluating current...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, operating as Virginia Tech, has been awarded a firm fixed price delivery order valued at two hundred twenty-one thousand one hundred seventy-two dollars and sixty cents ($221,172.60) by the Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (DOT FMCSA). The delivery order is issued pursuant to an existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle to support a work statement entitled "Effect of...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded a $955,782 Delivery Order to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct research to understand the technological requirements and challenges to reduce crashes occurring when Advanced Driver Assistance Systems or Automated Driving Systems unexpectedly fail due to Out of Distribution breaches. Virginia Tech will perform this research from September 2023 through March 2026 in Blacksburg,...
This is a Firm Fixed Price delivery order awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian federal agency, to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Electronics Safety Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The contract, valued at $123,554.13, is for the project "Special ADS/ADAS Implementation Considerations for Heavy Vehicles", which will explore the integration of advanced driver assistance...
This $198,300 firm fixed price definitive contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration to Vtech B.V., a for-profit company based in the Netherlands. The contract is for Vtech B.V., doing business as Vtech CMCC, to develop an appropriate 3D representation of rails with variable profiles, provided as multiple slices, and to create corresponding handling capabilities, particularly for interpolation in the rolling direction. This effort supports the...
This is a federal contract award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian agency, to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for a project titled "Heavy Vehicle V2V Basic Safety Message and Implementation Issues for Deployment." The $636,895.50 firm fixed-price delivery order contract has a period of performance through August 9, 2018. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Virginia Tech has subcontracted...
This firm-fixed-price task order, valued at $7,399,475.00, was awarded by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to support the development of on-road driving performance evaluation methods for automated driving system (ADS)-equipped heavy-duty vehicles. The task order is part of a larger Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) held by Virginia Tech for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Technical Interchange...
The Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration awarded a $196,679.00 Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, for a study on strategies for accelerated deployment of Automatic Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS). The order was placed under the DOT Research and Technology Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. Virginia Tech is a public land-grant research...
This is a delivery order award under the Vehicle Electronics and Safe Systems (VESS) Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract held by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, also known as Virginia Tech. The $8,296,476.00 order is for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to obtain field data collection services related to consumer-available driver support systems. This delivery order does not have a set-aside designation. As the prime...