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.
February 20, 2019
The 3U CubeSats are commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) spacecraft measuring 34 cm long and 10 cm square; each carries a communications payload that was integrated by APL.
February 5, 2019
APL physicist Joan Hoffmann has been appointed to the Defense Science Board Task Force on Applications of Quantum Technologies, which will explore the potential application of quantum technologies in land, sea and subsurface challenges.
February 4, 2019
Kirk Shawhan has been appointed Precision Strike Mission Area Executive. He will combine his detailed knowledge of air and missile defense systems and operational experience in electronic warfare to build on the mission area’s recognized accomplishments in the precision strike domain.
January 30, 2019
The Laboratory will host “Bridging the Health Divide: From Research to Operations,” an inaugural National Health Symposium, held in partnership with the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) on March 5–6, 2019, at the Kossiakoff Center on APL’s main campus.
January 9, 2019
Katherine L. Morse has been awarded the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s Scientific Achievement Award, the highest honor presented in NATO to science and technology working groups.
January 8, 2019
Researchers from APL published a new study that indicates that leading digital health companies have had minimal impact on disease burden and health care costs in the U.S. health care system.
January 8, 2019
APL has tapped David Van Wie to head its Air and Missile Defense Sector, where he will oversee all work related to a mission that traces its roots to the Laboratory’s founding project: the radio proximity fuze.
January 2, 2019
Scientists from NASA’s New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Its remarkable appearance, unlike anything we’ve seen before, illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago.
January 1, 2019
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system.
December 17, 2018
Scientists at APL, in collaboration with clinicians from Hopkins Medicine, have developed a platform to monitor the transmission of infections in medical settings, a tool that will help reduce instances of healthcare associated infections.
December 11, 2018
APL engineers, working with industry partners, the Missile Defense Agency, and U.S. Navy sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex, played a key role in successfully intercepting an intermediate-range ballistic missile target using a Standard-Missile (SM)-3 Block IIA missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii.
