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.
October 17, 2019
Originally slated for a two-year mission, the second of the twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be retired just prior to running out of propellant, more than seven years after launch and rewriting textbooks on radiation belt science.
October 16, 2019
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and School of Medicine (SOM) have, for the first time, demonstrated simultaneous control of two of the world’s most advanced prosthetic limbs through a brain-machine interface.
October 14, 2019
The flexible lithium-ion battery that can operate under extreme conditions — including cutting, submersion and simulated ballistic impact — now adds incombustible to its resume.
October 8, 2019
The application period for APL’s 2020 intern programs is open. The programs are highly competitive, with approximately 550 of 6,600 applicants selected in 2019, and the Lab has seen a 15–20% increase in applications nearly every year of this millennium.
October 1, 2019
APL researchers are capitalizing on recent advances in computer vision — including developments in object recognition, depth sensing, and simultaneous localization and mapping technologies — to augment the capabilities of two commercial retinal prostheses.
September 27, 2019
Innovation Leader will give out the 2019 Impact Awards at their annual Impact gathering in San Francisco in October.
September 26, 2019
In most cases, the preparation for and response to natural disasters don’t match up to the damage they cause and the devastation they leave behind. But a team of engineers and researchers in the Asymmetric Operations Sector is using its expertise in artificial intelligence to change this narrative.
September 25, 2019
On Oct. 7, APL and IEEE will host a workshop to focus on the many technical impacts and potential applications of fifth-generation wireless, or 5G, on government tactical and first responder networks.
September 16, 2019
APL has been tapped by the Department of Energy to develop advanced quantum computing and networking technologies as part of a larger effort to address basic research gaps in the ideas, methods and tools that connect quantum computing applications to hardware.
August 23, 2019
It had been 45 years since Ken Dyer, who worked on the Lab’s first defining innovation, walked the halls at Johns Hopkins APL. Yet, during a recent visit to mark his 100th birthday, it was clear that time hadn’t dimmed Dyer’s memories of this special place.
August 22, 2019
An escape room-themed kit won APL’s Future Innovators STEM Kit Demo day. Coordinated by the Air and Missile Defense Sector, the event was part of APL’s ongoing partnership with the United Way of Central Maryland.
August 19, 2019
Dean will apply her range of leadership, teaming and technical skills to connect APL’s portfolio with senior officials in federal, state and local governments.
August 5, 2019
APL is featured along with 49 other workplaces from around the world, including Amazon, Chobani and Morgan Stanley, on Fast Company’s inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators list.
July 24, 2019
In a recent paper in Physical Review, APL researchers are proving how a decades-old algorithm can drastically improve the computational accuracy of certain types of today’s quantum processors.
July 23, 2019
Three APL principal investigators were among researchers from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise to earn funding in the fifth round of the JHU Discovery Awards program, created in 2015 to spark synergistic interactions across JHU.
July 19, 2019
An estimated 600 million pairs of eyes watched Neil Armstrong touch his feet to the Moon’s surface in the early hours of July 20, 1969 — and that grainy black-and-white camera footage might not have been viewed without the work of members of the Space Systems Application Group at APL.
July 2, 2019
The APL team building the Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS), one of nine science instruments on board NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, has passed its critical design review (CDR) and is building the flight instrument and other systems.
July 1, 2019
APL Chief Government Relations Officer Timothy Collins, who also chairs two Johns Hopkins engineering graduate education programs, has been named president of Walsh University.
June 27, 2019
NASA has picked the APL-led Dragonfly — a rotorcraft-lander expedition to Saturn’s unique, richly organic moon Titan — as its next New Frontiers mission.
June 27, 2019
APL has published the event summary for the inaugural National Health Symposium, which brought together more than 160 experts from government, academia and industry to discuss ways that advances in research and development can translate into better delivery of health care.
June 24, 2019
With a recent award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), APL researchers will develop a brain-machine interface that will enable the control of complex systems at the speed of thought.
June 21, 2019
Leaning into its theme of “Expanding the Competitive Space from Undersea,” the annual Submarine Technology Symposium focused on high-impact technologies, design techniques and artificial intelligence capabilities to expand the undersea force.
June 20, 2019
Rachel Klima, a planetary scientist at the Lab, has been named as deputy principal investigator for Lunar Trailblazer, a small satellite concept designed to detect and map water on the surface of the Moon.
June 20, 2019
In a new paper published in Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, authors describe the important technical and practical considerations of building deep learning algorithms in the research setting, and deploying these algorithms in the clinical settings.
June 17, 2019
Johns Hopkins APL jumps five places, landing at #11, in its second consecutive year on IDG’s Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT.
