Core Competency

Sensors, Weapons, Electronic Warfare and Autonomous Systems

GTRI conducts basic and applied research, systems engineering, design, development and prototyping of sensor and weapons systems, including undersea, land-based, sea-based, airborne and space-based systems.  

about this Core Competency

  • Modeling & analysis of weapon & sensor interactions
  • Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of air and missile defense systems, including radar and other sensor modalities 
  • Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of development of signal processing algorithms; Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of multi-spectral imaging & sensor fusion
  • Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of electronic warfare systems, including electronic support, electronic attack and electronic protection systems and techniques 
  • Basic and applied research, design, development and prototyping of autonomous systems and system-of-systems architectures, including collaborative autonomous swarms, multi-domain systems-of-systems, and hybrid manned/unmanned configurations

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GTRI Principal Research Engineer Jud Ready.

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 from NAI’s Member Institutions who have made significant contributions to innovation and technology. Ready also holds a dual appointment as Deputy Director of Innovation Initiatives for Georgia Tech’s Institute for Materials and has over two decades of experience as an adjunct professor in Tech’s School of Materials Science & Engineering.
Researchers with prototypes of MQ-9 upgrades

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 prototyping of upgrades for critical sensor systems on the MQ-9 Reaper, a remotely-piloted aircraft.
Blue jet rising above a thunderstorm.

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 (about 43 miles) above thunderstorms.
From L to R: GTRI Research Engineer Austin Ruth and GTRI Senior Research Engineer Jovan Munroe.

GTRI Develops Machine Learning Operations Platform to Streamline Data Management for the DoD

GTRI is developing a Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platform that standardizes the development and testing of artificial intelligence (AI) and ML models to enhance the speed and efficiency with which these models are utilized during real-time decision-making situations.

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