Presolicitation Notice for Upcoming Broad Agency Announcement

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a presolicitation notice.  The purpose of the notice is to make people aware that FHWA plans to issue a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program that would cover the following topics:

• Topic 1: Virtual Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory for Highway Structures
  
  
• Topic 2: Applications of Massive Data and Data Mining Techniques Relevant to Safety Data
  
  
• Topic 3A: Behavioral based (or agent based) National Freight Demand Modeling
  
  
• Topic 3B: Freight Data Development and Enhancement to Support National Freight Transportation Analysis, Modeling, and Forecasting Practices

FHWA anticipates issuing a BAA that will open on or about February 12, 2014, and close on or about April 9, 2014.

For a copy of the full notice, please see the announcement posted at
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=eb2b847a4349c13205a1900dc8c74b1a&tab=core&_cview=0