NSF-FHWA Announce Coordination on CPS for Highway Transportation
NSF and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have a shared interest in advancing basic and applied research in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), which are systems in which physical processes are tightly intertwined with networked computing. Please see Dear Colleage Letter: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13034/nsf13034.pdf
Investigators seeking NSF funding under Program Solicitation NSF 13-502 (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13502/nsf13502.htm) for basic scientific research in CPS also may be interested in an FHWA Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program opportunity for funding in order to promote an effective transition from basic science to applied engineering in CPS for highway transportation. FHWA plans to post a broad agency announcement that includes the following cyber-physical system topics in early January 2013:
- High performance vehicle streams;
- New Approaches for Testing Connected Highway and Vehicle Systems;
- Innovative Applications for Emerging Real-Time Data; and
- Partial Automation for Truck Platooning.
Information about the announcement will be available under "Announcements" on the EAR Program web page (see http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/advancedresearch/) and will be listed on FedBizOpps (see https://www.fbo.gov/).