ACT addresses complex national security challenges, integrating early-stage concepts with advanced modeling and simulation, vertically integrated prototyping, and operationally relevant system development. The laboratory combines expertise in electromagnetics, electro-optics and photonics, mission engineering, survivability analysis, biosecurity, and related technology areas to support sponsors across the full technology-development lifecycle.
ACT conducts research and development over a broad range of topics, most notably:
- Electromagnetic warfare and survivability modeling and
simulation - Electro-optical and infrared systems
- Photonics and microelectronics
- Electromagnetics
- Signals and systems analysis
- Mission engineering and high-performance computing
- Biological and material systems
- Enterprise knowledge management and assurance
- Special programs and emerging national security technologies
ACT maintains advanced capabilities for:
- Foundational research and early-stage concept development
- High-fidelity modeling and simulation
- High-performance computing
- Electromagnetic, electro-optical, and photonic system development
- Vertically integrated prototyping
- Operationally relevant technology development and transition
- Mission engineering and survivability analysis
- Collaboration with Georgia Tech researchers and students
By combining innovative concept development with comprehensive analysis, prototyping, and transition capabilities, ACT delivers solutions that address today’s most challenging national security problems while advancing new ideas and enabling the next generation of mission-critical technologies.
