UniversityGreater Atlanta

Georgia Tech Research Institute

University · Atlanta, GA

Atlanta GA. Georgia Tech applied research arm for government and industry. $700M+ annual research. Strong DOD/defense — electronic warfare, radar, autonomy, cyber. One of largest university-affiliated defense research organizations in US.

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About Atlanta

Atlanta exists because of a railroad crossing — it was founded as a rail terminus, and that same logistics instinct now runs through Hartsfield-Jackson, the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic. Georgia Tech anchors the engineering side, while the Atlanta University Center — Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta — makes it home to the largest concentration of historically Black colleges in the country, a talent pipeline the fintech and media companies here don't always get credit for drawing on.

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