85%
of our technical staff hold advanced degrees
The RTX Technology Research Center is the company’s central innovation hub.
For more than 95 years, RTRC has operated as a multidisciplinary team of experts, driving groundbreaking advancements. The research center collaborates with RTX businesses, universities, national laboratories and small businesses to transform cutting-edge research into technologies that connect and protect our world.
Innovations
RTRC includes some of the world’s leading scientists, researchers and engineers.
69%
hold doctorates
200+
U.S. patents secured every year on average
330+
employees
Innovations
Major research areas:
Complex integrated systems
Delivering innovative product solutions with advanced system design and engineering tools.
- Rapid and rigorous design exploration
- Design for transient and off‑design operations
- System solutions that decrease cost and enhance performance
Advanced materials and manufacturing
Revolutionary materials and fabrication methods for performance-critical applications.
- High-temperature and lightweight structural materials
- Customized, durable coatings
- Additive and convergent manufacturing
- Model-aided design of materials, processes and structures
Model-based digital thread
Connecting data, processes and models across the entire lifecycle, with a seamless flow of digital information.
- Model-based, integrated, and collaborative and connected development environments
- Model‑based definition, manufacturing and inspection
Artificial intelligence systems
Transformative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and methods that can enhance safety-critical aerospace and defense operations.
- Foundational models
- Vision-image intelligence
- Embedded AI
- Collaborative autonomy
- Human-machine symbiosis
- AI assurance
Electrification and efficiency
Next-generation systems designed to power advanced mission capabilities.
- Advanced propulsion cycles
- Power generation, distribution, protection and conversion
- Energy storage and alternate fuels
Disruptive technologies
Groundbreaking innovations that feed the pipeline of transformative technologies for RTX.
- Microsystems
- Devices and materials for extreme environments
- Rotating detonation engines
- Sensing and computing using quantum and neuromorphic technologies
Our center
The RTX Technology Research Center campus in East Hartford, Connecticut, collaborates with governments, regulatory boards, universities and businesses across the world to create innovative aerospace and defense technologies to better protect and connect our world.
“When you look at all the aerospace and defense applications we work on, it doesn’t get any more exciting than that. And when you look at the advanced technologies we have been and will be working on in the future across the company, I couldn’t find a better place to work.”
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Careers
Join a team of bold thinkers, innovators and problem solvers at the RTX Technology Research Center.