APL experts are collecting data that will ensure the robustness of defense systems today and provide data and experimental capabilities that can be leveraged to enhance the systems of tomorrow.

Expertise

The complex challenges of today’s world demand new technologies that can keep us safer and take us farther, and APL’s engineers and scientists are meeting that demand head-on. From the unforgiving, harsh environment of outer space to the evolving new domain of mixed reality, APL is pioneering solutions in both the real and digital worlds to tackle critical national challenges.

To meet these challenges and maintain the nation’s defensive edge, APL calls upon its core competencies and deep expertise in a number of technical domains, both cutting-edge and foundational, provided by staff members across the Lab.

Areas of Expertise

  • Additive manufacturing

    Additive Manufacturing

    We provide expertise in material development and customization, design optimization, production, and characterization of metal and polymer parts.

  • Image of Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT) flight hardware

    Aerodynamics

  • Astrobiology

    Astrobiology

    At its core, astrobiology seeks to answer profound questions about our place in the universe. APL has made key contributions to understanding habitability in the solar system and beyond.

  • K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA Kepler Space Telescope. (Credit: JPL/NASA)

    Astrophysics and Exoplanets

    Investigating exoplanets and stellar phenomena to refine our picture of the universe

  • A researcher experiments in APL’s biomanufacturing lab. (Credit: Johns Hopkins APL)

    Biomanufacturing

    Making supply chains more secure, strengthening the defense industrial base, and producing materials wherever and whenever

  • Peter Thielen, a molecular biologist in Johns Hopkins APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, works to sequence SARS-CoV-2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in early March 2020. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman

    Biomedicine

  • Cislunar space (Credit: Johns Hopkins APL)

    Cislunar Science and Technology

    APL is making critical contributions to the development of cislunar infrastructure to ensure our nation’s security interests are protected, support development of a sustainable cislunar presence, and advance pioneering science.

  • Capt. Brandon Johnson, Lt. Matt Ress, and Lt. Jennifer Leo inside Johns Hopkins APL's Multi-Mission Operations Center

    Command and Control Systems

  • Examples of critical infrastructure protection in air, land, and sea

    Critical Infrastructure Protection

    Creating game-changing capabilities that enable U.S. infrastructure to be robust in the face of complex and persistent threats

  • LIVE Lab

    Cyber-Physical Security

  • U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 2nd Class Olivia Quinci, from San Diego, California, monitors aircraft aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill

    Display Systems

  • Mechanical engineering

    Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

    We excel in electrical and mechanical engineering, mechatronics, electronics packaging, systems integration, and multiscale modeling.

  • Advanced Electrical Fabrication Laboratory

    Electronics Design and Fabrication

    We provide an integrated capability to build hardware ranging from quick-turn prototypes to fully qualified spaceflight assemblies and from nanoscales up to fully integrated electronic packages for deployment on land, undersea, and on space systems.

  • Rendering of a service member in tactical gear studying a world map with data overlays (Credit: Adobe Stock)

    Generative Wargaming

    Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to augment traditional wargaming methods, enabling a faster, deeper understanding of the evolving landscape of warfare

  • Guidance System Evaluation Laboratory

    Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems and Technologies

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