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Georgia Tech marks
$42M expansion
Staff reports
A Cobb County facility expanded to the tune of $42 million is
expected to play a larger role in the state’s aerospace industry and
the country’s defense efforts.
Officials with Georgia Tech Research Institute — a nonprofit,
applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology
— cut the ribbon in May on its expanded Cobb County Research
Facility off Atlanta Road and adjacent to both Dobbins Air Reserve
Base and Lockheed Martin.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony unveiled the redeveloped 350,000
square feet of space, which came to GTRI after it purchased four
buildings on an unused, 52-acre Lockheed Martin site for $21
million in December 2017. The additional space will give the university
entity more room to support its research goals.
GTRI marked its 85th anniversary in 2019 after being founded
in 1934 to help jump-start the state’s economic recovery during
the Great Depression. While the GTRI employs nearly 2,400
people across three directorates, eight laboratories and 12 support
units in 20 states, the expanded Cobb facility will eventually add
an estimated 500 positions to the site’s 600 existing employees,
totaling about 1,100.
“When we moved next door to Lockheed Martin … almost
40 years ago, it marked the beginning of a great partnership — a
partnership that involved researchers, individuals from Lockheed
Martin, people from Georgia Tech, GTRI — they were all
interested in developing new technologies, new techniques, new
production manufacturing processes,” said then-Georgia Tech
President Bud Peterson. “This particular site has a long history of
supporting American defense — it actually dates back to World
War II where B-29 bombers were manufactured for the war to
help win the war and to support our servicemen and women
around the world.”
GTRI has enjoyed a long collaboration with Lockheed Martin,
Peterson said, adding that perhaps the most notable had been the
C-130 avionics modernization program or AMP program that
helped install new avionics in the C-130 to improve situational
awareness and detection of hostile threats for crew members.
“For decades, the federal government has looked to Georgia
Tech in general, and in particular, to GTRI, to try to find and
identify new and effective defense technologies, and we’ve been an
important part of that,” Peterson added.
The expanded research institute, Cobb Chairman Mike Boyce
said, “joins the county’s already extensive research and development
portfolio that includes The Farm at Comcast, Novelis Global
Technology Center, the Home Depot technology center and the
future Thyssenkrupp research and innovation center.”
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