Exhibit_J.1.pdf

Exhibit J.1

BILLING CATEGORIES, AND LABOR CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS

Program Manager (KEY PERSONNEL)

The Program Manager shall be responsible for overall management of the contract, including quality assurance for all products delivered to the Government and availability of resources to complete all Task Orders.

Program Manager duties include:

Oversee the development of program schedules, resource allocation and budgets.

Tracking the program budgets and providing forecasts, establishing and maintaining program status summaries and metrics for the project portfolio.

Organize, direct, and manage contract operation support functions, involving multiple, complex and inter-related project tasks.

Manage teams of contract support personnel at multiple locations.

Maintain and manage the client interface at the senior levels of the client organization.

Meet with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverable items. Ensure conformance with program task schedules and costs.

The Program Manager shall:

Possess excellent verbal, presentation, and writing skills;

Perform at the equivalent of having 10 years of experience in program management;

Possess leadership skills with a collaborative management style that will facilitate interaction with supervisors, colleagues, customers and corporate partners;

Possess a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical or scientific field, or in technical project management; and

Possess an active Project Manager’s Professional certification.

Senior Transportation Engineer/Planner (KEY PERSONNEL)

The Senior Transportation Engineer/Planner is responsible for defining research opportunities that revolve around safety countermeasures, their implementation, and their utility throughout the transportation project life cycle. A thorough understanding of the principals, theory, and practice of multi-modal transportation planning is required. Individuals must have experience in all phases of the transportation project life-cycle, and how safety matters are reflected in each life-cycle stage.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 10 years of experience in multi-modal transportation projects; and performs at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or

Sciences degree. The ITS Principal Investigator shall have an active Project Management

Professional certification.

Junior Transportation Engineer/Planner The Junior Transportation Engineer/Planner is responsible for developing and executing research opportunities that revolve around safety countermeasures, their implementation, and their utility throughout the transportation project life cycle. A thorough understanding of the principals, theory, and practice of multi-modal transportation planning is required. Individuals must have experience in the implementation of safety countermeasures.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 1-3 years of experience in multi-modal transportation projects, and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences

Degree.

Program Assessment Specialist (KEY PERSONNEL)

The Program Assessment Specialist shall be responsible for articulating the value of research activities and for identifying opportunities to accelerate adoption and deployment of research-derived solutions in the marketplace. The Program Assessment Specialist shall focus on the trends and state of the practice, and develop considerations on how the Office of Safety research

& Development (R&D) can be better aligned with the needs of the stakeholder community, including associations, academic institutions, and local, state, and other federal agencies.

Program Assessment Specialist duties include:

Develop program assessment methods and metrics for measuring the value of safety research and development

Develop an innovation plan for accelerating adoption of advanced R&D products (e.g., applications for naturalistic driving study data; connected and automated vehicles;

countermeasures development and evaluation)

Plan, organize, coordinate, evaluate, and arrange engagements with public and private sector safety interests to identify federal R&D needs

Identify companies whereby Cooperative Research and Development Agreements

(CRADAs) with the federal government or other partnering mechanisms are relevant and possible

The Program Assessment Specialist shall have:

Experience in development and application of safety countermeasures Experience in the development and application of the Highway Safety Manual Performs at the equivalent to having 10 years of experience in R&D product adoption and evaluation Performs at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree

ITS Principal Investigator:

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Principal Investigator shall assist the Office of

Safety R&D in the development of a research portfolio that includes interaction with multi-discipline teams among several FHWA offices. Must be thoroughly familiar with multi-modal

ITS concepts, practices, and procedures and have experience in all phases of the ITS life-cycle.

Must possess knowledge on the Connected Vehicle and Automated Vehicle developments as approached by the US Department of Transportation as well as other public, private, and academic sectors.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 10 years of experience in leading

ITS/Connected Vehicle multi-modal projects management, and at a similar level to having a

Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree. The ITS Principal Investigator shall have an active Project

Management Professional certification.

Senior Systems Engineer

The Senior Systems Engineer shall be responsible for providing support and advice on all aspects of software and system engineering in support of Safety R&D, including development focused on Connected Vehicle and Automated Vehicle research. Must be thoroughly knowledgeable of systems engineering tools that are applied in transportation, including the National ITS

Architecture and the Systems Engineering Guidebook for ITS. Provide expert advice, consultation, and assistance and apply such expertise to the planning, testing, and deployment evaluation of safety-focused software and systems engineering projects. Formulate guidance, standard operating procedures and practices, and systems acceptance for safety-focused research.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 10 years of experience in leading software or systems engineering projects supporting roadway safety and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.

Junior Systems Engineer

The Junior Systems Engineer shall be responsible for providing support on all aspects of software and system engineering in support of Safety R&D, including development focused on

Connected Vehicle and Automated Vehicle research. Must have some demonstrated experience with systems engineering tools that are applied in transportation, including the National ITS

Architecture and the Systems Engineering Guidebook for ITS. Provide assistance to the planning, testing, and deployment evaluation of safety-focused software and systems engineering projects.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 1-3 years of experience in leading software or systems engineering projects supporting roadway safety, and at a similar level to

Crash Modeler/Investigator

Provide skill in Finite Element (FE) modeling, data collection, data reduction, quality assurance/quality control, and management of field collected data. The crash modeler/investigator shall have expertise in advance modeling and analysis strategies and techniques to develop and validate FE Models of Vehicles and Hardware. The crash modeler/investigator shall be able to model/Simulate vehicle and occupant safety scenarios, apply models and simulations for the analysis of vehicle safety, conduct investigations into occupant risks, and analyze and develop systems for physical protection and security. The crash modeler/investigator shall be able to provide analysis of vehicle crashes that inform the understanding of safety countermeasures that are implemented at the roadside or in-vehicle. The crash modeler/investigator shall have expertise in analysis of nationally recognized data sets like the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study (NMVSS); the National Automotive Safety

Sampling (NASS); and the Large Truck Crash Causation Study (LTCCS).

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 3-10 years of experience to having in safety and crash analysis, and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.

Economist / Behavioral Economist The Economist shall be responsible for examining the role of behavior in transportation choices, and uncovering those mechanisms, which will “nudge” drivers to making safer choices— cognitive psychology related to transportation, including pay-as-you-drive insurance, finance, mode choice, congestion, and tolling.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 3-10 years of experience in transportation related economic analysis, including demonstrated experience considering economic behavior in the context of transportation and safety, and at a similar level to having a

Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.

Research Psychologist/Human Factors Specialist

The research psychologist/human factors specialist shall possess demonstrated skill and extensive experience in developing complex behavioral research efforts related to transportation safety and operations; designing and conducting applied behavioral research studies; and, applying behavior analysis focused on Learning Theory. This involves behavioral psychology on operant conditioning, rule-governed behavior, and capability to measure how the environment affects behavior.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 3-10 years of experience in research specific to the transportation field including highway safety and operations, and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.

Database Analyst / Administrator

The Database Analyst/Administrator shall be responsible to administer, test and implement database solutions salient to the needs of the research portfolio. The Database

Analyst/Administrator shall conform to established data security measure and protocols to safeguard the data including any PII data. This specialist shall define the overall schema for efficient data storage and retrieval, implement optimal querying for analysis and establish appropriate software requirements for human input and retrieval of data. The specialist shall support work involving geographical information system (GIS) database, data collection and management and video image processing. This specialist shall be capable of exploration and implementation of Big Data approaches, including but not limited to Cloud Computing, Big Data

Hosting, Big Data Analytics and Big Data Mining.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 3-10 years of experience in database management, design, and implementation, including Certified Data Management Professional

(CDMP) certification or similar certification, and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.

Transportation Statistician

The statisticians shall demonstrate experience with using Empirical-Bayes analysis in highway safety evaluations, and shall demonstrate expertise in generalized linear models such as Poisson and negative binomial models. Must have the ability to independently learn and apply theoretical material in statistics and data mining to solve real-world business problems. This demonstrated ability may include data discovery, gathering, and exploration, process definition, research into current industry trends, and internal benchmarking.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 10 years of experience using accident, highway inventory, and traffic data, and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.

Technology Transfer / Marketing Specialist

Technology transfer and marketing specialists shall have comprehensive knowledge of a body of marketing theories, concepts, principles, methods, practices, standards, and/or procedures.

Individuals providing these services shall be able to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, and shall have a demonstrated ability to develop and present briefings and training, as well as prepare a wide array of communications material. The successful candidate will have experience creating and implementing plans for marketing, communication, and outreach for individual projects as well as program-level activities.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 3-10 years of experience in the development of technology transfer approaches and implementation, including technical outreach materials development for audiences of varying technical depth, and at a similar level to

Graduate Student The graduate student must be an enrolled student in a university program and field of study relevant to roadway safety, including, but not limited to, civil engineering, computer science, systems engineering, economics, mathematics, and/or behavioral sciences.

Training Development Specialist

The training development specialist shall have comprehensive experience in developing adult learning materials that engage transportation professionals for instructor led and distance learning. The specialist(s) providing these services shall be able to distill complex research concepts, analyses, and experiments into modules that can empower adult learners to apply the knowledge with confidence.

Experience/Education: Performs at the equivalent to having 3-10 years of experience; and at a similar level to having a Bachelors of Arts or Sciences degree.