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U.S.
Department of Transportation
Basic Communication Devices
§Devices that only transmit
Basic Safety Message
□No driver
interface
§Initial procurement resulted
in 8 awards
□6 vendors
made it to acceptance testing
□No
vendors fully complied with the tests
□Specification
was considered by DOT as still weak
□Updated
specification and issued 2nd procurement
§2nd procurement resulted in 4 awards
□Currently
underway
§Qualified Products List
(QPL) estimated to be established later this year
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