Biological and Chemical Sciences
Leveraging APL’s technical expertise, our team works to identify intersections of emerging military needs and domain opportunity in the fields of environmental resilience, superhuman endeavors, and operational enablers.
Program Manager: Sarah Herman
Assistant Program Managers: Katy Carneal and Brock Wester
Focus Areas
Environmental Resilience
Addressing national security challenges arising from a rapidly changing environment
Superhuman Endeavors
Understanding and overcoming the current limits of individual health and performance
Operational Enablers
Translating biology and chemistry into enablers for military missions
Into Vanishing Ice → May 21, 2024
Featured Work
Advancing Biomanufacturing for National Security
Researchers at APL are combining their technical expertise, creativity, and national security acumen to put biomanufacturing to work to make supply chains more secure, strengthen the defense industrial base, and produce materials wherever and whenever.
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Mapping the Brain
APL lead several test and evaluation efforts for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONs) project, launched to develop state-of-the-art machine-learning capabilities by modeling how the brain processes information.
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Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Developing next-generation algorithms and computing substrates that leverage neurobiology to revolutionize intelligent systems
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