Georgia Tech Research Corporation
The Georgia Tech Research Corporation is a contracting organization that supports research and technological development at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
History
The GTRC, then named the Industrial Development Council, was founded in 1937 to serve as a contracting agency for the State Engineering Experiment Station —which then existed by that name on the Georgia Tech campus. In 1946 the Council was recreated and renamed the Georgia Tech Research Institute, still primarily serving the EES under the administration of director Harry L. Baker Jr.By 1984 Georgia Tech had reorganized the duties and scopes of both the 'contracting agency' and the State EES in response to Tech's changes in priorities over time towards contracting in research and technological development with national industries and the federal government, and with foreign governments. At that time the 'contracting agency' was assigned its modern name, the Georgia Tech Research Corporation ; and the Engineering Experiment Station, now fully integrated into the academic and research structure of Georgia Tech, succeeded to its new name, the Georgia Tech Research Institute .
In 2023, Georgia Tech and Georgia Tech Research Corporation agreed to pay a fine of $90,000 dollars to the Department of Justice as a result of violating the False Claims Act by not providing measures against its scientists to prevent false claims from being made to the National Science Foundation.
In 2025, Georgia Tech Research Corporation agreed to pay the United States $875,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and federal common law by failing to meet cybersecurity requirements in connection with certain Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracts. GTRC contracts with government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, for research performed at its affiliate, the Georgia Institute of Technology.