August 3, 2022
Johns Hopkins APL Secures Spot on Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List
For the fourth year in a row, Fast Company featured APL on its Best Workplaces for Innovators list.
We solve complex research, engineering, and analytical problems that present critical challenges to our nation. APL—the nation’s largest university affiliated research center—provides U.S. government agencies with deep expertise in specialized fields to support national priorities and technology development programs. We also serve as independent trusted technical agents to the government, providing continuity for highly complex, multigenerational technology development systems.
Our purpose is to make critical contributions to critical challenges. At APL, we feel it is our responsibility to try to solve these national challenges with the full measure of our dedication and expertise.
The Lab’s core values are unquestionable integrity, trusted service to the nation, world-class expertise, and game-changing impact—all in an environment that is collaborative, fulfilling (and even fun!).
APL’s purpose and core values guide our future, and it is no less than to create defining innovations that ensure our nation’s preeminence in the 21st century.
August 3, 2022
For the fourth year in a row, Fast Company featured APL on its Best Workplaces for Innovators list.
July 28, 2022
The International Academy of Astronautics presented its 2021 Laurels for Team Achievement Award to leaders of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, recognizing the team’s efforts to create and operate humanity’s first mission to “touch the Sun.”
July 25, 2022
US Black Engineer Magazine has recognized APL for its support of engineering schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, particularly efforts to strengthen education-to-employment pipelines for students in STEM fields.
July 18, 2022
In June, the APL Europa Clipper team delivered two science instruments and a radiation sensor to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, marking the Lab’s latest significant contributions to NASA’s historic mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
July 18, 2022
A new technology’s value depends on whether people can actually use it. APL engineers played key roles in developing a Human Readiness Level scale, designed to indicate a system’s readiness for use by humans.
July 15, 2022
Barry Grabow has been named mission area executive for Johns Hopkins APL’s National Health Mission Area, formally occupying a role he has held in an acting capacity since August.
July 15, 2022
APL scientists have compiled the first complete map of hydrogen abundances on the Moon’s surface. The map identifies two types of lunar materials containing enhanced hydrogen and confirms that water played a role in the Moon’s formation.
July 12, 2022
NASA has given Johns Hopkins APL the green light to begin detailed designs on the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) — a SmallSat mission to characterize the electric currents that link Earth’s aurora to the planet’s magnetosphere.
July 5, 2022
Maryland MESA, APL’s flagship STEM outreach program, was founded in 1976 with just two schools in Baltimore City. More than four decades later, the program is thriving — reaching thousands of students in more than 100 schools in eight districts across the state.
June 30, 2022
To improve collaborative decision making between human and machine, researchers at APL created an artificial intelligence agent called Cyclone and trained it to play a cooperative card game through a unique learning process: train Cyclone to play like a human so it can play well with humans.
June 23, 2022
Roshni Arun is just a week out of high school, but the ASPIRE intern is already on a mission to empower young women in STEM and increase student access to Johns Hopkins APL’s resources.
