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FTM-44 was a key demonstration of the Aegis Weapons System, using the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile to defeat a simple intercontinental ballistic missile threat. This facilitates the potential contribution of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense to a layered homeland defense architecture and augments the Ground-based Midcourse System.

APL works hard to recruit and retain veterans and currently employs more than 800 former service members.

A special journal issue from the Royal Society highlights a conference organized in part by APL researchers on the current knowledge and future exploration of the solar system’s ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, and their moons.

APL researcher Kevin Stevenson leads one of eight teams selected to kick off NASA's new Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program. The team will focus on finding potentially habitable — but so far undetectable — exoplanets around small red dwarf stars.

Five technical experts and leaders from APL’s Space Exploration and Force Projection sectors have earned a place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ associate fellows class of 2021.

Despite technical hurdles, the COVID-19 pandemic and a snowstorm, the APL team building L’LORRI — the imaging and navigational instrument for NASA’s Lucy mission — delivered their instrument last Monday, eight weeks earlier than was expected near the start of the pandemic.

The event summary for the second annual National Health Symposium, organized by APL, is now available.

APL’s Xiomara Calderón-Colón, Bessie Lewis, Samantha Allen and Martha Cervantes were honored at the 2020 Women of Color STEM conference, held virtually Oct. 8–10. The annual conference recognizes the achievements of women from diverse backgrounds who inspire others through their leadership and success in science, technology, engineering and math careers.

Asteroid Bennu, the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, seems to be a relatively recent newcomer to near-Earth space, according to a remote analysis of the asteroid’s craters that included APL researcher Olivier Barnouin.

APL’s Agata Ciesielski will help the Department of Transportation create policies for autonomous vehicles as part of a yearlong White House Presidential Innovation Fellowship.