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.
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.
December 11, 2018
“A Preface to Strategy: The Foundations of American National Security,” a new paper from APL’s Senior Fellows, examines the nation’s core strengths and how they should shape new strategies.
November 29, 2018
Jason Kalirai has joined APL as mission area executive for civil space, overseeing the Lab’s critical contributions to NASA and international missions to meet space science and challenges.
November 29, 2018
The APL-designed and -built Parker Solar Probe — humanity’s first mission to “touch” the Sun — has been named the 2018 Innovation of the Year by Popular Science.
November 26, 2018
APL researchers, collaborating with scientists from Johns Hopkins University and many other universities and research organizations, have launched the world’s largest and most diverse public neuroscience data repository.
November 16, 2018
Engineers at APL and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed software that enables autonomous bomb-defusing robots to turn themselves back over, right side up, if they ever get flipped the wrong way.
November 8, 2018
APL staff members earned first place overall and Election Forecaster honors in the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge.
November 2, 2018
APL’s Society of Women Engineers chapter (SWE@APL) has been honored with the society’s Mission and Best Practices awards.
