FHWA Seeks Research Leader
The FHWA's Office of Operations R&D is seeking a Lead Research General Engineer, GS-0801-15. The selected individual will serve as the Enabling Technologies Team Leader.
It is an exciting time for FHWA, where researchers are capitalizing on the revolutionary advancements in telecommunications, cyber-physical systems, and the ability to process vast amounts of data and information regarding the real-time conditions not only of our roads, but of the transportation system as a whole. These revolutionary advancements will enable the appearance of automated vehicles that communicate with each other, traffic signals, traffic information providers, transportation management centers, and people carrying mobile communications devices wherever they go. These advancements will be realities in the not too distant future and the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), in McLean, VA, is pioneering the way for many of these things to happen.
TFHRC conducts and coordinates research and advances innovation for a mobile society providing objective, high-quality technical expertise, leadership, and results. As a major part of TFHRC, the Office of Operations R&D focuses the TFHRC mission on producing technologies and tools to improve transportation system productivity, efficiency and performance. Much of our R&D occurs in our state-of-the art Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory where its founders received the 2014 FHWA Administrator's Award for Excellence in Teamwork, which hosted President Obama and Secretary Foxx last summer and shared a vision of possibilities for revolutionary change for our nation's transportation system in connected automation. Here is where the opportunities are for people with vision, technical skills, and passion to make a difference in transforming the transportation system as we know it.
The Office of Operations R&D hosts three closely knit teams: Enabling Technologies, Concepts and Analysis, and Transportation Operations Applications. Together, these teams have created a vibrant environment in the Saxton Lab where students, their professors, our state partners, and staff exchange ideas and transform them into innovative R&D projects that deliver useable results.
The announcement is located at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/408271300 and closes July 17.