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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 aviator in October 1960.

After Truly completed the STS-8 mission, he served as the first commander of the Naval Space Command and retired from the Navy as a vice admiral in June 1989. The following day, he was sworn in as the eighth administrator of NASA, serving from 1989 to 1992. After his service, Truly held vice president and director positions at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Department of Energy.

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 tropical storm then developing westward into Hurricane Franklin.
 

Levi Boggs, a researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, assembled a team to review satellite, radar and radio-wave data of the Oklahoma jet after seeing a civilian photograph of the event not unlike these new images.
 

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. 
The GridTrust project, which has been successfully tested in a real substation of a U.S. municipal power system, combines the digital fingerprint with cryptographic technology to provide enhanced security for the utilities and other critical industrial systems that must update control device software or firmware. Led by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in collaboration with the City of Marietta, Georgia the project was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).
 

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.
 

The GridTrust project, which researchers say has been successfully tested in a real substation of a U.S. municipal power system, combines the digital fingerprint with cryptographic technology to provide security for the utilities and other critical industrial systems that must update control device software or firmware. Led by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in collaboration with the City of Marietta, Georgia the project was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).

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 an unmanned craft, in this case a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper drone. Angry Kitten, developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), is more aptly described as a full-fledged cat at this point, with work on the pod going way back to 2013.

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, recruiting a team of student researchers in the Art & AI Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) to explore the artistic implications of AI and the technological implications of art. In fact, they were well ahead of the recent public buzz over artificial intelligence tools, having launched four years ago.

Leibert is now working with Ethan Trewhitt, another GTRI researcher, who helps students dig deeper into the sometimes mystifying ways in which AI and artistic intent interact.

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.

Research Next, a planning initiative for Georgia Tech’s research enterprise, was launched by Executive Vice President for Research Chaouki T. Abdallah in 2020 and co-chaired by Tim Lieuwen and Mark Whorton. As part of Phase 3, project teams worked throughout the past year to implement its goals.

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 energy-efficient methods to recover materials from spent batteries so that more of them can be reused – and pose fewer environmental risks.
Georgia is quickly emerging as a hub for the electronic transportation industry. According to data from the Georgia Department of Economic Development, since 2018, 35 EV-related projects have contributed $23 billion in investments in the state.
 

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 round of its ground and flight testing, using the Angry Kitten ALQ-167 electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod on a MQ-9A Reaper uncrewed aerial system (UAS); the testing occurred at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.

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 addition of robotics at the product level, still relying heavily on human workers to debone chickens to get the most meat yield possible at processing plants. But a team from four research institutions—the University of Arkansas, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Fort Valley State University—is leading an effort to develop industry-specific AI and robotics specifically for this purpose.

A research team with members from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, and the Space Systems Design Laboratory has developed a concept using a net to capture and de-orbit large debris.

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 lines that turn chickens into meat.

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 tornado before it happens.

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 traditional human inspection."

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 real-world problems.

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.

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 on their way to other locations.

Getting fuel to military aircraft in a timely manner can be complex and challenging. Fueling operations must anticipate demand and allocate resources to provide quick turnaround while accommodating unexpected air traffic. Located in the state of Washington, Whidbey may be best known as where much of the recent movie, “Top Gun: Maverick,” was filmed, but it’s also one of the busiest naval air stations on the West Coast.

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 from the 2020 figure for its entire research enterprise, which includes the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). 

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 the top researchers at the University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology. The two helped secure funding to purchase a new weather radar system.

Salvus continues sponsored research with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the original developers of the interferometric detection technology, in the areas of health care, environmental sciences, food safety and agriculture.