The RTX Technology Research Center serves as the company’s innovation hub. Our engineers, scientists and researchers anticipate the discoveries destined to change everything, and they transform that research into the solutions and products that help our businesses shape the future. We are:


  • Empowering innovation among the company’s businesses.
  • Solving customers’ critical problems.
  • Developing breakthroughs for a safer, more connected world.
  • Working with major universities and national laboratories on groundbreaking research projects.
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The RTX Technology Research Center main campus in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Key facts

RTRC includes some of the world’s leading scientists, researchers and engineers.

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86%

of our technical staff hold advanced degrees

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68%

hold doctorates

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90+

year history

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34

countries represented by RTRC researchers

The science of what's next

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We partner with RTX’s businesses to transform innovative research into practical applications in sustainable aviation, cybersecurity, energy conservation and advanced defense systems. By using the latest science and research tools we’re able to forecast trends and opportunities to create breakthrough technologies that yield high ROI for customers and government agencies. Our unique talent, experience and resources allow us to deliver rapid responses to critical, time-sensitive challenges.

RTRC major research areas

For more than 90 years the RTX Technology Research Center has operated as a multidisciplinary group of experts collaborating on groundbreaking innovations. While we respond to a wide range of challenges from across our organization, we are primarily focused on six major areas of research.

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Complex integrated systems

Bringing together component subsystems to deliver the overarching functionality

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Advanced materials and manufacturing

Performing revolutionary research for next-generation systems, devices and processes

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Model-based digital thread (MBDT)

Digitally linking processes to form a single, contiguous definition of all value-added decisions made during a product's manufacturing journey

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Autonomy-enabling technologies

Increasing information collection and mission success while reducing the risks caused by human operator performance

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Electrification and sustainability

Investing in high-power electrical components and advanced electric architectures for hybrid and electric engine technology 

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Disruptive technologies

Driving groundbreaking innovations that advance our insights and capabilities