Gen. Gregory Guillot, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, saw firsthand how APL’s advanced technologies and cross-agency expertise support emerging national ...

Over the past decade, additive manufacturing has emerged as a disruptive force in advanced defense manufacturing. However, skepticism about its reliability — particularly for building crucial military ...

Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field. Instead, it has local patches of magnetized crustal rocks, called “magnetic anomalies.” Lunar Vertex will be the first mission to find out ...

APL’s Conference Services team manages scheduling for spaces on APL’s main campus. A variety of events and conferences are hosted throughout the year by external organizations.

Lisa Blodgett has been named assistant director for programs and chief strategy officer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.. In this role, Blodgett will execute ...

Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, retired, has joined APL as senior advisor focused on homeland defense. VanHerck brings extensive leadership experience in defense and national security, having ...

Dr. Brian A. Bittner is a senior scientist whose research focuses on robotic agility and dexterity in complex physical environments. His recent projects include high-speed autonomous driving in ...

Dr. Alexandra Pontefract is an astrobiologist interested in understanding the phase space of habitability and the limits of life. Her research focuses on microbial communities in hypersaline planetary ...

Designing, building, and applying new technologies—especially those that include artificial intelligence—can be a double-edged sword: powerful and enabling on the one hand, but potentially biased and ...

Grade Level: 6–8 Duration: Six weeks (one class per week, 90 minutes each) Prerequisites: None – perfect for beginners! Explore how AI works, where we see it in everyday life, and why human thinking ...

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