Scientists at Johns Hopkins APL successfully tested an innovative chemical destruction system known as the Pulse Combustion ...

Christopher Watkins, chief mission engineering and integration officer at APL, received the 2026 Vice Admiral Charles E.

A Navy-engineered cybersecurity system infused with APL innovation, called Situational Awareness, Boundary Enforcement, and ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s Global Health Mission Area aims to eliminate naturally occurring, deliberate, and accidental health threats through revolutionary science and engineering. Health threats in the ...

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In person, SMART Nav doesn’t look like much. It’s in a metal square that’s laced into a web of soldered wires, resistors and diodes on a circuit board. In fact, technologically speaking, it’s a ...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is a secure facility, operating under Department of War regulations for restricted entry. All visits must be preapproved via written request and ...

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Johns Hopkins APL’s National Security Analysis Mission Area combines innovative technical knowledge and operational analysis to create emerging capability solutions to national security challenges, ...

APL is located in Laurel, Maryland, situated between Baltimore and Washington, DC, and near I-95. Our main campus spans nearly 461 acres and is home to more than 20 major buildings, as well as a ...

As countries around the world shift their attention to the Moon and the space surrounding it, the United States is making it a priority to establish a long-term lunar presence, recognizing that ...