Students are responsible for answering the questions asked in the application themselves with minimal help from an adult.

A trusted authority on strategic approaches to national security challenges, Lisa Blodgett will execute APL’s strategic ...

Researchers have touted the revolutionary potential of quantum computers to take on otherwise intractable challenges, like ...

Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, retired, has joined APL as senior advisor focused on homeland defense. VanHerck brings extensive leadership experience in defense and national security, having ...

Kostas Gerasopoulos and Robert Osiander are APL’s newest Master Inventors — a select group of Laboratory staff members ...

The Research and Exploratory Development (RED) Mission Area is Johns Hopkins APL’s research engine. We conduct pioneering research targeting game-changing breakthroughs to benefit national security ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s Homeland Defense Mission Area develops innovative and effective solutions to defend the U.S. homeland and its critical infrastructure from increasingly diverse and sophisticated ...

Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field. Instead, it has local patches of magnetized crustal rocks, called “magnetic anomalies.” Lunar Vertex will be the first mission to find out ...

A Look Back at 2022’s Most Pivotal Moments of Space Exploration (Fox Weather, December 30, 2022) Eight Times Science Exceeded Expectations in 2022 (The New Yorker, December 28, 2022) Through an ...

Based on technology and a reference system design developed by APL, the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) will help solve the challenge of locating and tracking active satellites in and on ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists into a second year and conducting disease surveillance continues to be an important component of public health responses, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ...