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Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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Denise Bakar

Denise Bakar Communications Manager, HASS COE denise.bakar@dot.gov

Denise is the Communications Manager at the USDOT Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence (HASS COE). She leads strategic communications and partnerships, developing engagement...

Who We Are

The Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence brings together knowledge across USDOT, academia, and industry on highly automated transportation systems, exploring new technologies and their potential impact on safety.

USDOT Statement on FCC waiver action

Technology plays an important role in making our roads safer for all users. By issuing the Joint Parties’ waiver request, the FCC provides the certainty needed for our nation’s transportation technology industry to bring safety-enabling cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) services to the...