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:
RTRC includes some of the world’s leading scientists, researchers and engineers.
of our technical staff hold advanced degrees
hold doctorates
U.S. patents secured every year on average
countries represented by RTRC researchers
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.
Creating disruptive product offerings through advanced system design and engineering toolsets
Developing innovative materials and fabrication methods for performance-critical applications
Digitally linking processes to enhance collaboration and improve efficiencies across the product life cycle
Fusing methods characteristic of human intelligence with sensing and processing technologies to address RTX-relevant challenges
Revolutionizing electric and alternative fuel system architectures that will power next-gen air vehicles
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