"Every engagement gets the principal engineer. We don't have junior staff to ramp on your problem — if you hire us, you get the inventor of the technique we're applying." — Dr. James G. Maloney
Our story
Marietta Research Solutions was founded by Dr. James G. Maloney after 25+ years across academia, defense, intelligence, and commercial industry — including roles as Chief Scientist at Georgia Tech Research Institute and co-founder of the engineering practice at Compass Technology Group.
The thesis is simple: the most useful EM consulting is also the most direct. A two-person practice means the engineer who scopes your problem is the engineer who solves it. A contractor network means we can scale to a multi-year phased-array program when needed — without turning into a body shop.
Leadership
Dr. James G. Maloney, PhD, MBA
Principal Engineer & Technical Director
Inventor of the Fragmented Aperture Antenna (US Patents 6,323,809 & 11,228,102) and a recognized leader in computational electromagnetics. Two-time IEEE AP-S Best Paper Award recipient and currently authoring the definitive book on Fragmented Aperture Antennas.
Susan Mercer
President | Marietta Research Solutions
Susan Mercer retired after a 30-year career at AT&T and leads Marietta Research Solutions with a focus on professional, organized, and client-centered support.
Patents
Fragmented Aperture Antennas and Broadband Antenna Ground Planes
The foundational patent. Discloses the binary-pixel aperture concept and the GA + FDTD co-design methodology.
Fragmented Aperture Antennas
Continuation and extension of the fragmented aperture concept.
How we scale
Two principals, plus a curated contractor bench. We pull in specialists by name when the work requires them — never by FTE count.
Mechanical & Fabrication
Antenna housings, RF enclosures, machining, and additive manufacturing partners — for getting your simulated design into measured hardware.
Test & Measurement
Anechoic chamber access, near-field ranges, and VNA-equipped measurement facilities for acceptance testing and validation.
Software & ML
Specialized contractors for surrogate modeling, GPU-accelerated solver development, and ML-driven optimization workflows.
Start with a 30-minute scoping call.
Bring your spec sheet or block diagram. We'll tell you whether we can help, what it would cost, and when we could start — before you sign anything.
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