85%
of our technical staff hold advanced degrees
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:
- Fueling innovation in the company’s businesses
- Solving customers’ critical problems.
- Developing breakthroughs for a safer, more sustainable and connected world.
- Working with major universities and national laboratories on groundbreaking research projects.
Key facts
RTRC includes some of the world’s leading scientists, researchers and engineers.
69%
hold doctorates
175
U.S. patents secured every year on average
30+
countries represented by RTRC researchers
RTRC major research areas
For 95 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 that are aligned to RTX’s company-wide technology strategy and road maps.
Complex integrated systems
Creating disruptive product offerings through advanced system design and engineering toolsets
Advanced materials and manufacturing
Developing innovative materials and fabrication methods for performance-critical applications
Model-based digital thread
Digitally linking processes to enhance collaboration and improve efficiencies across the product life cycle
Artificial intelligence systems
Fusing methods characteristic of human intelligence with sensing and processing technologies to address RTX-relevant challenges
Electrification and sustainability
Revolutionizing electric and alternative fuel system architectures that will power next-gen air vehicles
Disruptive technologies
Driving groundbreaking innovations that feed the pipeline of transformative technologies
“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.”
Andreas Roelofs
RTX Vice President
Research & Development
Director RTRC
