Formerly the Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory (ITTL)

GTRI's ICL conducts a broad range of research in areas of computer science and information technology, communications and networking, and technology policy, and helps customers develop commercial products from university research. ICL conducts research that solves complex problems involving:

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

Researchers work in:

• Broadband telecommunications
• Wireless access systems
• Information exchange standards
• FutureMediaSM (including digital, social, multi-media, and virtual worlds) evolution, integration and application
• Military and commercial communications
• Information operations
• Communications network architectures, network management, surveillance and disruption
• Social, cultural and behavioral modeling
• Technology assessment
• Application integration and technology insertion (moving from lab/classroom to application)
• Software radio systems
• Product commercialization
• Technology policy analysis and research
• Strategic and tactical technology planning for customers

ICL is home to a number of nationally and internationally recognized programs. FalconView^TM, one of GTRI's signature research programs, is an internationally recognized mapping system that displays various types of maps and geographically referenced overlays, and is an integral part of the Portable Flight Planning Software.

FalconView^TM is now open source. The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is recognized by both Department of Justice (DoJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a national standard for information exchange, and is currently being integrated with the Department of Defense Command and Control community. NIEM is the information exchange standard that forms the technical foundation of the Suspicious Activity Reporting system and the National Incident Reporting System used by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and emergency responders across the nation.