Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory (ITTL)

Contact Information

Jim McGarrah

Laboratory Director
404-407-8965

ITTL conducts a broad range of research in areas of computer science and information technology, communications and networking, and develops commercial products from university research. ITTL conducts research that solves complex problems involving:

• Information processing, storage, representation and exchange
• Internet and database technologies and applications
• Information security and assurance
• Privacy
• Knowledge management
• Data visualization
• Mapping/ geographical information
• Distributed simulation
• Enterprise information systems

Researchers work in:

• Broadband telecommunications
• Wireless access systems
• Network security
• Multimedia information systems
• Tactical communications
• Communications surveillance and disruption
• Information warfare and assurance
• Communications networks and network management
• Technology assessment
• Application integration
• Software radio systems

In commercial product realization, multidisciplinary research teams drawn from across GTRI and Georgia Tech apply product research and development toward product commercialization. Other researchers provide policy monitoring and assessment to facilitate responsiveness to changes in the technological research environment. ITTL also provides C4I capabilities and functional requirements analysis to various service components across the Department of Defense in northern and eastern Virginia.

ITTL is also home to FalconView®, one of GTRI's signature research programs. FalconView® is a Windows mapping system that displays various types of maps and geographically referenced overlays, and is an integral part of the Portable Flight Planning Software.