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Jun 3, 2025
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck Joins Johns Hopkins APL as Senior Advisor
Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, retired, has joined APL as senior advisor focused on homeland defense. VanHerck brings extensive leadership experience in defense and national security, having previously served as commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.
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Jun 2, 2025
Blodgett Appointed Assistant Director for Programs and Chief Strategy Officer at Johns Hopkins APL
A trusted authority on strategic approaches to national security challenges, Lisa Blodgett will execute APL’s strategic planning process, lead senior-level engagement with government stakeholders, direct enterprise financial investment in support of APL’s mission and build on existing productive relationships with industry.
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May 28, 2025
Johns Hopkins APL Celebrates Master Inventors as Beacons of Innovation
Kostas Gerasopoulos and Robert Osiander are APL’s newest Master Inventors — a select group of Laboratory staff members celebrated for careers focused on innovation and securing patents based on APL intellectual property.
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May 27, 2025
Engineering Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers
Researchers have touted the revolutionary potential of quantum computers to take on otherwise intractable challenges, like modeling complex molecular behavior for drug discovery or factoring enormous numbers in use for cryptography schemes. But how such a computer would be created remains unclear. With help from Johns Hopkins APL, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is attempting to define, in practical terms, what a useful quantum computer looks like and how it must be built.
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May 21, 2025
Vercher to Lead Strategic Deterrence Mission Area at Johns Hopkins APL
As head of APL’s Strategic Deterrence Mission Area, Robert Vercher will lead a mission area that provides key engineering capabilities and technical analyses and evaluations to ensure the performance and reliability of U.S. Navy and Air Force strategic systems.