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| National Defense

The command will also be testing out a collaborative mission autonomy software called Golden Horde, he said. Developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Golden Horde will be loaded onto Group 2 UAVs, “which are then going to be collaborating with one another...

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| AFCEA Signal

While big data has garnered much attention in recent years, small datasets and artificial intelligence (AI) can provide valuable benefits on the battlefield, according to Margaret Loper, associate director of operations for the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Information and Communications… Read More >>

| The Washington Post

More than 3 years after a federal report downplayed holes in a network that enables advanced warning of dangerous storms, dozens of regions remain vulnerable....

The University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology recently teamed up to fill a coverage gap northeast of Atlanta… Read More >>

| Vision Systems Design

To spot defects on moving trains, Norfolk Southern Railway (Atlanta, GA, USA) is building train inspection portals on tracks in the United States. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (Atlanta, GA, USA) is collaborating with the railroad on the inspection project.

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| Semiconductor Engineering

A technical paper titled “Rapid exchange cooling with trapped ions” was published by researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute.

“The trapped-ion quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture is a leading candidate for advanced quantum information processing. In current QCCD… Read More >>

| Army Times

ATLANTA — For Capt. Chris Aliperti, January’s “hackathon” — an annual innovation collaboration between the 3rd Infantry Division… Read More >>

| Phys.org

A new cooling technique that utilizes a single species of trapped ion for both computing and cooling could simplify the use of quantum charge-coupled devices (QCCDs), potentially moving quantum computing closer to practical applications.

Using a technique called rapid… Read More >>

| Food Safety Magazine

Salvus, LLC, a CJB Company, has entered into a licensing agreement with Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) to gain access to PFAS sensing technology for use in the Salvus™ Detection Platform, the world’s first handheld interferometric detector. Utilizing GTRC’s sensing… Read More >>

| TechXplore

Collaboration between Norfolk Southern Corporation and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has led to the development of digital train inspection portals that use advanced machine vision and artificial intelligence to examine trains moving at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour to… Read More >>

| AFCEA Signal

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute recently combined machine learning, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and a novel radio frequency image processing algorithm to streamline radar signal processing time and costs by two or three orders of… Read More >>

| Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB)

Early next year, the public will have access to a new tool that makes the cost of health care more transparent — it’s a statewide database of insurance claims.

Georgia will join about half of all states that already have an all-payer claims database, or an APCD. The database and… Read More >>

| Wired

You probably keep a backup of important personal files, photos, and videos on a flash drive or external hard drive. In the not-too-distant future, you might store that data in DNA instead. 
 

French company Biomemory wants to bring personal DNA-based data storage to the public… Read More >>

| Air Force Research Laboratory

The United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is collaborating with Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, on a new research project to design strains of probiotic bacteria that can provide health… Read More >>

| Air Force Research Laboratory

The United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is collaborating with Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, on a new research project to design strains of probiotic bacteria that can provide health… Read More >>

| Rail Technology Magazine

Norfolk Southern Corporation, one of America’s largest rail freight companies has begun deploying Digital Train Inspection Portals which it hopes will enhance rail safety across the company's 22-state network.

The portals feature cutting-edge Machine Vision Inspection technology developed… Read More >>

| Railway Age

Norfolk Southern (NS) on Oct. 26 announced that it is deploying Digital Train Inspection Portals to enhance rail safety across the Class I railroad’s 22-state network.
 

According to NS, the portals feature cutting-edge Machine Vision Inspection technology developed in partnership… Read More >>

| PR Newswire

Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is deploying Digital Train Inspection Portals to enhance rail safety across the company's 22-state network. The portals feature cutting-edge Machine Vision Inspection technology developed in partnership with the Georgia Tech Research Institution (GTRI),… Read More >>

| Microwave Journal

As the number of elements on phased array antennas continues to grow, so does the volume of data that must be processed to extract information from the signals gathered. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new approach to intelligently process that data closer to… Read More >>

| New Electronics

As the number of elements on phased array antennas continues to grow, so does the volume of data that must be processed to extract information from the signals gathered. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new approach to intelligently process that data closer to… Read More >>

| VA News

Originally from Mississippi, Richard Truly earned a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. During his time in school, he was a member of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. After graduation, he attended Navy flight school and became a naval… Read More >>

| The Daily Mail

Meteorologists call them 'gigantic jets' — powerful and vanishingly rare trees of lightning that contain 50-times more energy than the typical lightning bolt. A Puerto Rico-based photographer documented this little-seen weather phenomenon late last month, August 20th, while documenting the… Read More >>

| Metro Atlanta CEO

A new cybersecurity technology that relies on the unique digital fingerprint of individual semiconductor chips could help protect the equipment of electrical utilities from malicious attacks that exploit software updates on devices controlling the critical infrastructure. 
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| Power Grid International

A new cybersecurity technology that relies on the unique digital fingerprint of individual semiconductor chips could be used to help protect the equipment of electrical utilities from malicious attacks that exploit software updates on devices controlling the critical infrastructure.
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| Association of Old Crows

The US Air Force is turning to an unlikely place to beef up its electronic warfare countermeasures: a decade-old aircraft-mounted pod known as the "Angry Kitten."

While not a new device for the USAF, the latest tests involved the first flight of the Angry Kitten Electronic Warfare Pod on… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) resident painter Mark Leibert for years has turned to algorithms and computational methods to help inspire and refine his work.

Leibert and collaborators from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have gone even further,… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

Workforce diversity in science and technology is widely seen as necessary for continued innovation. For Georgia Tech, striving toward inclusivity starts with a simple but crucial goal: building deep, lasting research partnerships.

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| Metro Atlanta CEO

Amid the surge in demand for lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles (EVs), there is a greater need to properly recycle them. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is working to optimize Georgia’s EV battery supply chain by developing cost- and… Read More >>

| Military Embedded Systems

The U.S. Air Force conducted an operational assessment of a new electronic countermeasures combat training pod -- dubbed "Angry Kitten" -- during 30 sorties over two weeks in April 2023.

The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) ran the electronic warfare (EW) system through the first… Read More >>

| ASME.org

Although the advent of the assembly line helped set the stage for increased productivity and efficiency across numerous industries, some benefited more than others. The poultry industry has taken some steps to adopt assembly line strategies but has remained somewhat stagnant with limited… Read More >>

| School of Industrial Design, College of Design, Georgia Tech
| University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect pathogens. $2.1 million of the grant will go to Georgia Tech to focus on automating the processing… Read More >>

| ABC News

Norfolk Southern said it is also partnering with the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta to develop more advanced safety inspection technology by using "machine vision and algorithms powered by artificial intelligence to identify defects and needed repairs much more effectively than… Read More >>

| WSB-TV

Severe Weather Team 2 knows every minute counts when it comes to keeping your family safe during severe weather events. Severe Weather Team 2 Chief Meteorologist Brad Nitz spoke with researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute about a project that could help predict a… Read More >>

| Yahoo! News

For two straight years, Cabrera said, Georgia Tech is the top spender for research among universities without a medical school. A portion of that research takes place at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Cabrera noted, which focuses on applied research, or research focused on solving… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical & Computer Engineering recently featured William H. Robinson, GTRI Deputy Director for Research for Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate (ICSD) and ECE Professor.

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| Technology.org

Using 5G network technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and edge computing resources, a pilot project under development at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island will create an optimized refueling system designed to boost readiness for military aircraft operating there – and those stopping for fuel… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

For the second consecutive year, the Georgia Institute of Technology has garnered a spot among the 20 universities in the U.S. with the highest amount of research and development (R&D) spending. Georgia Tech’s R&D spending of $1.114 billion in fiscal year 2021 reflects a 6.2% increase… Read More >>

| FOX 5 Atlanta

Keeping a watchful eye on severe weather across north Georgia just got a little easier. That’s according to Dr. Marshall Shepherd and John Trostel, two of… Read More >>

| Salvus

Salvus continues sponsored research with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the original developers of the interferometric detection technology, in the… Read More >>

| Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC)

Tom Crowley has turned his love of astronomy into consulting work with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Aloha Telescope outreach program. In addition to the live presentations, the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Direct to Discovery outreach… Read More >>

| Air Force Research Laboratory

The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, NASA and DuPont de Nemours, Inc., has a brand-new spacecraft materials experiment flying on the International Space Station.

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| Popular Science

The Angry Kitten was developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute to simulate the electronic warfare devices of other country’s aircraft, the kind that the Air Force might encounter in the sky.

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| Motherboard Vice

Now, scientists led by Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, have described the strongest gigantic jet ever seen, which sprang up from cloudtop in Oklahoma and darted 50 miles above Earth’s surface, where it delivered the largest charge transfer to space on… Read More >>

| The Science Times

GTRI scientist Levi Boggs made a multi-organization research team to learn more about the historical lightning flashes after discovering that the data was also accessible to devices on satellites from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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| The Jerusalem Post

In the peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Science Advances, researchers created a three-dimensional map of the Oklahoma jet, according to corresponding author Levi Boggs, a scientist at the… Read More >>

| Yahoo! News

A huge lightning bolt which rose 50 miles into space above a thunderstorm has offered new insights into mysterious ‘gigantic jets’, which carry huge amounts of electrical charge. Corresponding… Read More >>

| The Washington Post

A study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances sheds light on the structure and cause of gigantic jets. The investigation was inspired when Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia… Read More >>

| Air Force Research Lab

The operational assessment of the Angry Kitten Combat Pod electronic attack system in April demonstrated rapid reprogramming between flights. This combat pod, an updated version of the Georgia Tech Research Institute Angry Kitten pod, simulates enemy electronic attack signals during Air Force… Read More >>

| hhjonline.com

Researched and organized by four high school students out of Georgia alongside leadership from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Cybersecurity in Aviation exhibit is now available for all museum visitors to view.

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| 41nbc.com

Students were tasked to to create an exhibit, and tie in a connection to the Robins Air Force Base. The exhibit is part of a six-week long camp through the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

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| WGXA

There's a new exhibit to see at the Museum of Aviation. The museum unveiled its new cybersecurity exhibit on Wednesday. STEM students with the Georgia Technology Research Institute's summer internship program helped design the exhibit.

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| Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

Harvesting a field full of fragile blackberries is no easy task. Biomedical engineering roboticist Yue Chen is working with collaborators at Georgia Tech and the University of Arkansas on an autonomous robotic solution to this… Read More >>

| Technology Org

A research team led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) was recently selected for second-phase funding of a $9.2 million project aimed at demonstrating a hybrid computing system that will combine the advantages of classical computing with those of quantum computing to tackle some of… Read More >>

| WSB-TV

While many people are concerned about robots taking over jobs, in some cases, technology is making conditions safer and easier for workers.

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| Control Design

The Georgia Tech Research Institute's (GTRI) Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) is incorporating automation solutions, specifically virtual reality (VR), into poultry processing to… Read More >>

| Poultry World

The Agricultural Technology Research Program at the Georgia Tech Research Institute is looking at ways to incorporate automation… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine

Researchers at Georgia Tech are looking to emulate one of nature’s most ingenious methods of compact and durable recordkeeping: DNA.

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| Georgia Tech Research

Seeking to further enhance the benefit of research collaborations with academic faculty, last year GTRI started the Graduate Student Fellowship Program to catalyze long-term research… Read More >>

| Tech Briefs

“By studying the light returned, the system will tell us whether water ice is present in these permanently-shaded areas,” said Jud Ready, principal research engineer at GTRI and the Lunar Flashlight project’s principal investigator at Georgia Tech.

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| Wired

Offshore wind development has the potential to transform the nation’s energy supply by providing clean power directly to big coastal cities. But a new study might throw a wrench in those plans.

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| Georgia Tech

In January, Georgia Tech hosted Carrie Castille, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Castille and her staff met with researchers at Georgia Tech’s Renewable Bioproducts… Read More >>

| AZoSensors

The role women and girls play in STEM is honored annually by the United Nations on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To recognize this day, AZoSensors interviewed multiple women across the sensors field, including, GTRI Principal Research Scientist Jill Gostin.

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| Georgia Tech Research

In early 2020, Georgia Tech researchers designed a saliva-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and encouraged community members to test weekly to track the health of the campus.

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| Georgia Tech - Agricultural Technology Research Program

The Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) has selected Lance Barrett and Ryan Giometti as the 2022 R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Student Interns. They are the first recipients of the one-year funded internships made possible through an endowment… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech College of Engineering

A new award from NASA will give Georgia Tech researchers easier and faster access to research and engineering funds during the next five years to support advances in rotorcraft vertical lift technology.

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| SIGNAL

The Defense Department’s University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics has some U.S. universities examining solutions to address the pressing challenges of hypersonic flight. One team, Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering… Read More >>

| Phys.org

Scientists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have demonstrated the feasibility of a new approach that moves trapped ion pairs through a single laser beam, potentially reducing power requirements and simplifying the system.

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| 11 Alive

“Our idea was to develop a system that provides early warning for the presence of infectious disease rather than the typical, you know, human diagnostics which are very complex and time consuming, and results can take hours or even days," said Mike Farrell, a GTRI principal research scientist… Read More >>

| Sustainability Times

As part of such efforts, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech Research Institute have jointly developed a new process and materials whereby… Read More >>

| U.S. Army

Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division participated in the first Marne Innovation Workshop at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Jan. 6-9, 2022. The workshop is a collaborative event that included participants from the Army ROTC program at Georgia Tech, the United States Military… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

The Georgia Institute of Technology has broken into the top 20 in higher education research and development spending. While overall higher education research spending slowed to 3.3% growth in fiscal year 2020, the Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

"GTRI is unique because of its emphasis on national security applied research and development and longstanding relationships in the defense industry, combined with attention to building collaborative academic research relationships across Georgia Tech," said Courtney Crooks.

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| Georgia Tech

After five and a half years at Georgia Tech, including seven semesters of co-op, Lily Huff is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with a concentration in design. After graduating, Huff will work with GTRI as a research engineer, designing and testing systems for the… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

A hotbed for semiconductor innovation, the Georgia Institute of Technology offers deep domain expertise in device and integration technologies, as well as high-assurance tools for… Read More >>

| IEEE Spectrum

For DNA to make a difference in the storage problem, it needs to scale up, while the cost must come down. New research led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) aims to achieve both. 

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| The Association for Computing Machinery

Researchers have made significant advances toward the goal of a new microchip able to grow DNA strands that could provide high-density 3D archival data storage at ultra-low cost — and be able to hold that information for hundreds of years.

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| BBC

Scientists say they have made a major step forward in efforts to store information as molecules of DNA, which are more compact and long-lasting than other options.

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| Atlanta Business Chronicle

Georgia Tech’s aerospace engineering research, expertise in national defense and security, diverse student population, and ROTC program secured the partnership with the U.S. Space Force.

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| The Defense Post

The US Air Force (USAF) recently tested its “Angry Kitten” electronic countermeasures training pod on an F-16… Read More >>

| Newswise

the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) has tapped the Georgia Institute of Technology and key academic partners for four grants valued at $6 million over the next three years. The awards draw on Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) expertise across… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech College of Sciences

Georgia Tech’s Colleges of Sciences and Engineering have long collaborated to launch successful joint space science research projects with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

Meet Sheila Isbell, Chief, Software Engineering and Analytics Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).

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| Georgia Tech Research

Georgia Tech is committed to putting research into action. In fiscal year 2021, the Institute brought in $1.2 billion in new grants and contracts for research and other sponsored activities. Of this amount, $781 million was granted to the Georgia Tech… Read More >>

| Marietta Daily Journal

The Cobb Chamber hosted leaders from the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Lockheed Martin on Monday, Sept. 13.

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| WATT Poultry

At the 2021 Poultry Tech Summit, Wayne Daley, Ph.D., Georgia Tech Research Institute will discuss how the autonomous robot for cage-free layer house management can actively sense and characterize bird status as it moves through the house. 

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| Georgia Tech

The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) appointed 12 Georgia Tech faculty members to Regents Professors and Regents Researchers. Among these were Glenn Parker, principal research engineer and associate director of the Applied Systems Laboratory in the Georgia Tech… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Research

Georgia Tech received two National Science Foundation (NSF) Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards, totaling $40 million. A third award for $20 million was granted to the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), with Georgia Tech serving as one of the leading academic institutions. … Read More >>

| Georgia Tech College of Engineering

What makes a swimming pool fast? It’s not just the fit, strong, and elite athletes competing at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Jud Ready, a principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute… Read More >>

| GovCon Wire

The U.S. Army has chosen five companies to receive funds that will support artificial intelligence and robotic technology prototyping projects under the service branch’s other transaction agreement with the National Advanced Mobility Consortium, Inside Defense reported Thursday… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech College of Engineering

Georgia Tech engineers and researchers will work with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California to assemble, integrate and test a small satellite mission known as Lunar Flashlight. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) will provide the cleanroom for assembly,… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering

Anundergraduate in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University has been working on a project that could make it easier to experiment with putter characteristics. Working with Jud Ready, principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech

Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock visited Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)’s Cobb County Research Facility on Wednesday, June 30. His stop at GTRI was part of his statewide tour focused on Georgia’s resources around infrastructure, defense, and research. 

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| Yahoo

In a tour of Cobb County's military and research complex at Dobbins Air Reserve Base on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Georgia, touted Democratic infrastructure plans as a boon for job creation in his home state. The day included stops at Dobbins, the adjoining Lockheed Martin plant,… Read More >>

| Georgia Tech College of Engineering

The inaugural GTRI Graduate Student Fellowship Program is a competitive program for high-caliber Georgia Tech graduate students working in GTRI strategic research areas. Academic faculty and GTRI researchers worked together to create proposals that closely aligned with GTRI’s strategic… Read More >>

| DefenseNews

The U.S. Air Force has wrapped up the first phase of its Golden Horde demonstration effort. The demonstration showed that… Read More >>