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Jonathan Walker, PE, PhD

Jonathan Walker serves as the director of Communications, Navigation, Surveillance Systems, and Engineering at U.S. DOT’s Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

SBIR Eligibility

Only United States small businesses are eligible to participate in the U.S. DOT SBIR program. At the time of Phase I and II awards, businesses must meet all of the criteria listed on this page.

Resilience and Disaster Recovery Tool Suite

About this Document

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center is helping agencies make informed decisions about future infrastructure investments. Learn more about the Resilience and Disaster Recovery Tool Suite.

About U.S. DOT’s SBIR Program

Program Overview

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program awards over $10 million annually in contracts to U.S. small businesses to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation...

Helping to Build a Better America

The U.S. DOT Volpe Center recently released a series of resources and stories of recent work in alignment with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes historic infrastructure investments: improving public safety and climate resilience, creating jobs across the country, and delivering a more...

Innovative Uses of Data Science to Solve Transportation Problems

State DOTs, metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), and regional transportation planning agencies rely on complex data to solve the nation’s congestion, infrastructure, and equity issues. U.S. DOT Volpe Center data experts are using tools from the data science and machine learning toolbox to...

Increasing Access to Work Zone Information to Improve Highway Safety for All

The nation’s transportation system is becoming increasingly data driven. Safe and efficient mobility for all is dependent on reliable real-time information about work zones and other disruptions to usual traffic operations. Standardizing access to these data is critical to improving safety—not only...