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09.29.23

New Battlefield Obscurants Could Give Warfighters a Visibility Advantage

Clouds of tiny structures that are lighter than feathers – and whose properties can be remotely controlled by radio frequency (RF) signals – could one day give U.S. warfighters and their allies the ability to observe their adversaries while reducing how well they themselves can be seen.

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New Android App Supports Worldwide Vaccination Efforts, Health Surveys

Public health organizations worldwide now have a new mobile app available to help them gather information needed to battle disease and assess the needs of populations often facing… Read More >>
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GTRI Leads Development of Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Framework

GTRI is developing an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scoring system for the U.S. commercial real estate market, similar to a credit score, that stakeholders could use… Read More >>
2024 Regents' Researchers
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GTRI Researchers Named Regents' Researchers

Four members of the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) faculty have been honored by the University System of Georgia's (USG) Board of Regents with 2024 Regents’ Researcher… Read More >>
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Gregory Louden: A Testament to Georgia Tech’s and GTRI’s Legacies and Missions

Gregory Louden, Principal Research Engineer in the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Advanced Concepts Laboratory (ACL), and head of its Advanced Warfighting Technologies… Read More >>
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Air Force Special Operators Developing Drone-Launched Swarms

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… Read More >>

Norfolk Southern Train Portal
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Norfolk Southern, GTRI Unveil Georgia’s First Digital Train Inspection Portal

At a recent media event, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and Norfolk Southern unveiled a new digital train inspection portal near Jackson, Georgia, marking the… Read More >>
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Small Data May Have Big Impact on Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

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… Read More >>

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Comas Haynes: Bridging Industry and Academia to Develop Equitable Energy Solutions

In a recent interview, Haynes shared how he plans to leverage his expertise in hydrogen and industrial efficiency in his new role on the U.S. Department of Energy’s inaugural… Read More >>
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Radar gaps threaten millions as severe weather season ramps up in U.S.

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… Read More >>

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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 academic inventors… Read More >>
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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 development and… Read More >>
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Norfolk Southern’s Machine Vision System Inspects Moving Rail Cars

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… Read More >>

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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 National Security Agency’… Read More >>
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GTRI in Photos - Winter 2024

GTRI in Photos showcases our favorite pictures of GTRI research and operations in action. Read More >>
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Rapid Exchange Cooling With Trapped Ions For Implementation In A Quantum Charge-Coupled Device

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

“The trapped-ion quantum charge-… Read More >>

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Study Will Examine Pixies, Jets, and Other Discharges Above Thunderstorms

A new National Science Foundation award to Georgia Tech will help researchers learn much more about mysterious cloud top discharges (CTDs), which reach as high as 70 kilometers (… Read More >>