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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL, was recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with the organization’s newest award — the AIAA Award for Aerospace Excellence — on May 18.

As the Department of Defense aims to extinguish use of PFAS-containing aqueous film forming foams for firefighting on military bases in 2024, APL researchers are evaluating additives to enhance firefighting capabilities of PFAS-free fire suppressants for military use.

Mr. Raven spent the day at APL’s Laurel, Maryland, campus meeting with subject-matter experts and visiting several of the Lab’s state-of-the-art research facilities.

A first-of-its-kind particle instrument meant to characterize the forces that cause radiation to rain down into Earth’s atmosphere arrived safely in Montana earlier this week. Developed at Johns Hopkins APL as part of NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission, the compact detector marks an unmatched feat in instrument design.

Future disease outbreaks aren’t probable, they’re inevitable. To prepare for those situations, researchers at APL are leveraging more than 30 years of public health and data analysis experience to develop strategies and tools that will best enable effective decision-making for outbreak response.

In April, Johns Hopkins APL honored nearly 200 staff members for their exceptional contributions during the annual APL Achievement Awards ceremony.

One of the world’s foremost codebreaking mathematicians was recognized by the National Security Agency on May 8 when Richard “Dickie” George was inducted into the National Cryptologic Hall of Honor. George and three others joined the ranks of just 106 inductees in U.S. history honored for their extraordinary contributions to national security through cryptology.

To solve complex challenges, Joe Miragliotta brings together as many people and ideas as possible before developing a plan of action. With this approach, he earned 10 patents and Johns Hopkins APL’s Master Inventor designation, presented on April 25 at the annual APL Achievement Awards ceremony.

Can autonomous vessels navigate as well as humans? APL researchers are trying to answer that question with the development of standardized navigation and performance evaluation methods for the Department of Defense.

APL researchers are reenergizing the thermal battery market with technology that enables smaller, yet more powerful batteries to power missile systems.