FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION (FHWA) - EASTERN FEDERAL LANDS HIGHWAY DIVISION (EFLHD) 2027 INNOVATION DAY

Background

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) mission is dedicated to enhancing a world-class highway system that promotes safety, mobility, and economic growth while improving the quality of life of all Americans. Within FHWA, Federal Lands Highways (FLH) is enabled and entrusted to administer a variety of programs and funding to facilitate transportation improvements for our many Federal Land Management Agency (FLMA) Partners. These Partners include the National Park Service (NPS), USDA Forest Service (FS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Tribal Governments, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR).

What DOES FLH Do?

Since the early 1900s, FLH has assisted its FLMA Partners in designing and constructing aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sensitive highway and bridge projects. This includes the original planning, design, and construction of numerous roads and bridges within our National Parks and National Forests. FLH delivers successful projects through strong project management, from inception to completion, fostering continuous coordination with our Partners to facilitate delivery. To ensure successful delivery, FLH applies innovative and diverse solutions tailored to each project's unique challenges. Context sensitivity, a design philosophy ingrained in our culture, is critical to meeting the unique missions, values, and needs of our Partners and the public. FLH collaborates closely with its Partners to build roads and bridges that meet the transportation community's standards while balancing, respecting, and protecting the resources in which they are located.

FLH’s Vision

A safe, reliable, equitable, and resilient transportation system for all those accessing Federal and Tribal Lands.

FLH’s Mission

We deliver innovative and context-sensitive transportation solutions in alignment with our partners’ missions and values.

Within FLH, Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division (EFLHD) serves the transportation engineering needs of FLMAs in 31 eastern states including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. EFLHD actively administers the survey, design, and construction of FLMAs roads and bridges. In addition, EFLHD provides traffic monitoring services, the road inventory program, asset management, pavement management systems, and bridge inspection services throughout the United States and territories.

Invitation/Notice

EFLHD cordially invites interested companies to virtually present innovative transportation products, solutions, techniques, tools, or processes in the following areas:

* Highway Design

* Project Management

* Construction

* Engineering Support

* Geotechnical

* Pavements

* Hydraulics

* Safety and Traffic

* Survey and Mapping

* Utilities

* Materials

* Bridge: Design, Inspection or Management

* Road Inventory

* Planning

* Environmental Compliance

Date: Thursday, February 25th, 2027

Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Platform: MICROSOFT TEAMS (VIRTUAL)

How To Apply

To apply via email, please submit a maximum of three (3) pages describing the company; the innovative transportation product, solution, technique, tool, or process; and how it will benefit EFLHD’s projects by Monday, January 25th, 2027, by 6:00 PM EDT to EFLIndustryDay@dot.gov with the subject “Application for the EFLHD Innovation Day” attention to Lourdes Boulware. Applications will be reviewed and selected by a panel. Selectees will be notified by Thursday, February 4th, 2027.

Important Details About The Event

* The event will feature multiple concurrent tracks.

* Each presenter will have 30 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes for questions and/or discussion (45 minutes total).

* Multiple presenters are scheduled on the same day.

* To be respectful of everyone's time, please:

          * Log in 10 minutes prior to your assigned time for a dry run (A/V check, slides, screen sharing).

          * Do not exceed your 45-minute allotted slot.

* A detailed agenda will be provided.

* Selectees must:

           * Submit a copy of their presentation in PDF format by Friday, February 12th, 2027.

           * Send it to EFLIndustryDay@dot.gov for approval with the subject line "Presentation for the EFLHD Innovation Day."

* Your audience will include:

            * EFLHD staff (subject matter experts in the areas noted in the invitation/notice section) who are eager to learn innovative ways to complete projects faster and more efficiently, increase quality, and/or save money.

            * Additional staff from NPS, FS, USFWS, USACE, BLM, BOR, and other FHWA offices.

* Presenters may not attend other companies' presentations.

* Purpose of the event: This event is intended as a technology awareness event for staff. The agency does not plan to issue open RFPs or to solicit sole-source purchase orders (POs) for pilot studies.

* Questions? Contact Lourdes Boulware at EFLIndustryDay@dot.gov with the subject line "Questions about the EFLHD Innovation Day."