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Top 25 Engineering and technology research centers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 368 engineering and technology research centers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 38,679 professional contacts across them, including 9,429 with verified work emails. Cambridge is the largest hub.
This list covers engineering and technology research centers headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest engineering and technology research centers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,025 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Southwest Research Institute is an independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,502 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We Engineer Solutions for the Nation’s Toughest Problems As an independent nonprofit engineering innovation company, Draper provides engineering services directly to government…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An independent non-profit institute headquartered in Silicon Valley, SRI is a global leader in research and development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,011 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HRL Laboratories pioneers the next frontiers of physical and information science.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 397 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MRIGlobal is a world leader in applied science and technology research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 351 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1987, CFD Research develops innovative technologies that advance national security, aerospace, defense, life sciences, materials, and energy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At AT & T, our greatest passion is innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 255 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering, and Science (NY Creates) is a world-leading R&D innovation hub and commercialization facilitator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC) is a non-profit research institute of Mercer University, a private, comprehensive university located in Macon, Georgia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) models, makes, powers, connects and secures the next generation of UTC products in order to transform entire industries and set new…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parallax Advanced Research is a research institute that drives innovation through collaboration among government, industry, and academia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since CUBRC’s emergence in 1983, the company has grown from a small facilitator of research into a fully staffed, highly respected, scientifically crucial entity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) is a world-class technology research consortium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) is a manufacturing technology innovation and readiness center focused on accelerating the adoption of advanced manufacturing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fraunhofer USA, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a product development company bridging the gap between applied research and commercial impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) develops and deploys advanced technologies to enable research discoveries and practical innovations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rose-Hulman Ventures, a program of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, brings together outstanding students with technology-based companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PacMar Technologies provides research and development capabilities for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The vision of Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation is to leverage an economic development cluster strategy that capitalizes on the competitive advantage of Colorado’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “OAR (On-Line Applications Research) Corporation was founded to research, develop, and implement practical solutions to computer science and engineering problems arising in defense…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) is a professional organization that provides a collaborative forum for government, academia and industry to resolve…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a research and development firm with a focus on engineering and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “COSMIAC proudly serves as a Tier-2 Research Center under the School of Engineering at The University of New Mexico.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: engineering and technology research centers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names engineering and technology research centers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of engineering and technology research centers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name engineering and technology research centers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Engineering and technology research centers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 368 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among engineering and technology research centers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “engineering and technology research centers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names engineering and technology research centers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among engineering and technology research centers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,429 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names engineering and technology research centers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many engineering and technology research centers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 368 engineering and technology research centers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Southwest Research Institute, headquartered in San Antonio, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most engineering and technology research centers?
Cambridge leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by New York (8) and Atlanta (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,429 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 368 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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