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Research and Exploratory Development Mission Area

Biological and Chemical Sciences

About 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.

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Environmental Security

Addressing national security challenges arising from dynamic environmental conditions

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Superhuman Endeavors

Understanding and overcoming the current limits of individual health and performance

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Operational Enablers

Translating biology and chemistry into enablers for military missions

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

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 led several test and evaluation efforts for IARPA’s 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 AI

Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

Developing next-generation algorithms and computing substrates that leverage neurobiology to revolutionize intelligent systems
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