Director, Center for Infrastructure Systems and Technology

Role Description

This position leads and oversees the Center for Infrastructure Systems and Technology within the Department of Transportation's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R), John A. Volpe National Transportation Center (Volpe), located in Cambridge, MA. The position is comprised of seven technical divisions with a combined federal staffing of more than 103 employees, a portfolio of 166 projects, and annual obligations of over $81 million, on average.

Duties

The Director for the Center for Infrastructure Systems and Technology provides executive leadership and strategic direction over programs by developing plans and policies ensuring that projects for sponsoring organizations are properly formulated, resourced, staffed, conducted, and managed to support and advance the strategic goals of the DOT and OST-R as they pertain to transportation infrastructure and technology. The Director oversees existing programs, develops new programs, and ensures technical excellence within the staff and programs of the Center. In addition, the Director will be responsible for providing horizontal integration of policy and deployment research across the Center, working with the Director for Research and Innovative Technology and other Center Directors to bring together cross-functional teams to address the challenges facing the nation's transportation system.

The Director provides executive level oversight and management of the following activities and programs in Volpe's unique fee-for-service business model, conducted in accordance with the funding, scope, and requirements of formal agreements with sponsoring organizations.

• Engineering and safety analyses of transportation systems and implementing infrastructure modernization and sustainment programs.
• Large and complex grants management, performance assessment and asset management, all-hazards, systems analyses to improve physical and cybersecurity while enhancing transportation safety, emergency management and operational efficiency.
• Analysis and modeling of shifting global passenger and freights flows and their implications for the required maritime domain awareness, transportation and logistics infrastructure including consideration of safety and security.
• Assessment, analysis and field testing of rapidly developing and advanced transportation technologies, such as connected and automated vehicles and applications of artificial intelligence.
• Strategic analysis of transportation infrastructure research and potential partnerships within the transportation enterprise.
  Program development and support around innovation, technology transfer, and attracting novel concepts to address transportation challenges.
• National and international resource center of knowledge exchange on emerging and advanced transportation technologies.

Leads assessments of new and advancing technologies for applicability, integration, and deployment to meet emerging transportation needs, problems, and issues; and develops strategies to market those technologies to partners.