News Releases

Brian Geesaman will lead a diverse portfolio of programs and initiatives focused on integrated strike warfare capabilities, kinetic and non-kinetic weapon systems, and end-to-end capability development.

With support from APL, former staff members John Sittmann and Tom Curtis have launched Deep Root Biolabs, a startup advancing a patent-pending biological platform. By applying plant- and microbial-based systems, the company aims to tackle real-world challenges in agriculture, environmental remediation, and the bio-mining of critical minerals.

When NASA’s Dragonfly begins full rotorcraft integration and testing in early 2026, the mission team will tap into a trove of data gathered through critical technical trials conducted over the past three years.

APL has been awarded one of three new NASA science investigations designed to strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. The research payloads will be integrated into the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign, with delivery to the lunar surface planned for 2028.

The Next Generation Jammer features high-power amplifier technology and an extended range. APL provided technical insight and worked with government and industry partners to mature critical technologies for a more advanced jammer.

Leonard Moss Jr. has been appointed to the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), the nation’s primary forum for evaluating and recommending changes to the policies that guide the National Industrial Security Program.

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and space weather.

Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected hundreds of critical measurements, providing data to advance understanding of complex physics important to hypersonic flight.

NASA and APL have successfully tested a wideband technology that enabled, for the first time, a spacecraft to communicate with both government and commercial networks.

APL has named Yu-Han “Hugh” Chen as head of the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD). Chen, who previously served as the department’s chief analyst, will lead APL’s work providing integrated technical and operational analysis to inform national security decisions.