September 2003

Bd Systems Awarded 5 Year Contract to assist the Federal Highway Administration in Bridge Management System Research and Development

 TORRANCE, California, September 2003 - The US Department of Transportation competitively awarded a 5 year, $4.1 million dollar CPFF IDIQ contract to bd Systems, Inc. to assist the Federal Highway Administration in Bridge Management System Research and Development. This award enables the continuation of services to the FHWA that the bd Systems Spatial Division has provided over the past 6 years through multiple contract vehicles. Past services to be continued include data mining of the National Bridge Inventory, statistical analysis and deterioration modeling, bridge management life cycle costing and risk assessment, application of artificial intelligence in bridge management research, policy analysis, and software tool development.

This new award expands services bd Systems will be providing to the Division of Infrastructure Research and Development, to include research related to bridge element-level data, technology transfer, and the development of a spatially enabled data warehouse including data integrated from other program areas to promote advanced data mining and analysis.