Jud Ready Joins National Academy of Inventors’ 2024 Class of Senior Members
GTRI Principal Research Engineer Jud Ready has been selected to join the National Academy of Inventors’ (NAI) 2024 Class of Senior Members, a group of 124…
Celebrating 90 Years of Innovation and Impact
Who We Are
Who We Are
Every day, we wake up to complex challenges, expected and unexpected, at home and around the world. The renowned researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute take on those challenges as if they were their own. With intention, we nurture the nation’s foremost innovators and support their pursuit of the answers that will make life better, safer and more fulfilling for all of us.
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research organization of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). We develop advanced technology solutions and large-scale system prototypes to address the most difficult problems in national security, the state of Georgia, and the overall human condition.
Mission & Vision
GTRI is a designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) and leverages its science and engineering expertise, in collaboration with Georgia Tech, to enhance state of Georgia economic development, serve national security, improve the human condition, and educate future technology leaders.
Leadership
Our experienced and diverse leadership team is committed to supporting GTRI’s talented researchers and delivering innovative results for our partners. Most importantly, they strive to do both the right way. That’s why they are focused on promoting compliance and ethical behavior, supporting inclusion, and giving back to the state of Georgia.
Labs & Facilities
GTRI is headquartered on the Georgia Tech campus in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, but our laboratories are found on and off the main campus with more than 20 field offices around the nation. Our dynamic laboratories drive pioneering research to deliver solutions to our customers' most complex challenges.
Browse our full directory of our Facilities
- Advanced Concepts Laboratory
- Aerospace, Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory
- Applied Systems Laboratory
- Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research
- Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory
- Electronic Systems Laboratory
- Information and Communications Laboratory
- Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory
Ethical Standards
As a unit of Georgia Tech, GTRI’s priority is our people and strives to hold the highest level of integrity and commitment to ethical standards to ensure all activities are executed in the best interest of those who support us and of those we serve.
Our History
Founded in 1934 as the State Engineering Experiment Station by pioneering legislators and regents , GTRI has long stayed true to the roots those founders laid 90 years ago: real-world research that solves tough problems for government and industry.
GTRI Stories
Sensor Modernization for MQ-9 Reaper Adopts Open Systems Technology
Modernization efforts utilizing the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA™) standard have enabled the rapid…
NSA and GTRI Collaborate to Assure Trustworthiness of AI for National Security Uses
To address concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) applications, researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), in collaboration with the…