GTRI Applied Systems Laboratory

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Applied Systems Laboratory
Nonprofit
Industry command and control and missile defense simulation and analysis
Headquarters,
USA
Key people
Barry Bullard
Laboratory Director
Parent Georgia Tech Research Institute
Website www.gtri.gatech.edu/asl

The Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL) is one of eight labs in the Georgia Tech Research Institute and one of three labs under the Electronics, Optics, and Systems directorate. [1] This laboratory, located in Huntsville, Alabama, primarily supports the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (USA AMRDEC) in its aviation and missile R&D efforts.

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Huntsville, Alabama City in Alabama, United States

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Research Areas

The laboratory’s multi-disciplinary research skills include battlefield command and control simulation and analysis, analysis and modeling of complete air & missile defense systems, sensor and fuze simulation and analysis and aviation mission planning software engineering. Other research involves field and hardware-in-the-loop testing of air defense weapons equipment, wargaming and force-on-force simulations, guidance and control simulations, and tactical software development.

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References

  1. "2014 Annual Report" (PDF). Georgia Tech Research Institute. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2014-11-13.