This is a $400,000 delivery order awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian agency, to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). The award is for a study titled "Driver Expectations for System Control Errors, Engagement, and Crash Avoidance in Automated Mixed Function Vehicles." The study will be conducted in two phases, with Phase 1 funded in fiscal year 2016 and Phase 2 proposed for future funding. The total ceiling...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $497,052 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to conduct research and analysis on the use of artificial intelligence in advanced driver assistance and automated driving technologies over 18 months. Major subcontractors include Southwest Research Institute and VTT LLC, which will provide introductory research support. The contract has no set-aside...
This is a $778,887.90 task order awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop refined models and methods for testable cases and scenarios to evaluate Level 3 through Level 5 automated driving systems. The task order was competed and does not have a set-aside designation. As the prime contractor, Virginia Tech is partnering with Southwest Research Institute, VTT LLC, and Quantitative...
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,...
The Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded a $556,515 delivery order to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to evaluate methods for assessing automated driving system maneuver execution capability and performance. The 18-month cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is being performed in Blacksburg, Virginia under the Vehicle Electronic Systems Safety indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity program....
This is a delivery order awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian federal agency, to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) as the prime contractor. The $56,314.98 contract is for analyzing data related to automated driving systems (ADS) submitted to state, local, and international governments. The project will research data sources on permits, applications, deployments, and reporting for ADS vehicles. The contract is a time...
The Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded a $587,299 firm-fixed-price task order to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct an "Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) and L2 Driving Automation Systems Implementation Implication Study." This task order is part of a larger program managed by NHTSA related to vehicle automation technologies. Under this task order,...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct research on driver adaptation to lower levels of vehicle automation. The $484,093.00 contract falls under the agency's Human Factors major program area and is part of a larger Human Factors-Engineering Integration indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity...
This is a $678,503 firm fixed price delivery order awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian federal agency. The contract is for data mining of naturalistic driving studies to support lane keeping assist (LKA) scenario characterization. The work will be performed in Blacksburg, Virginia. This delivery order is part of a larger NHTSA vehicle electronic systems safety Indefinite...
This is a delivery order awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for $583,767.23 under a Time and Materials contract type. The order is for "Multiple Sources of Safety Information from V2V and V2I: Redundancy, Decision-Making and Trust," which likely involves research and development related to vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)...