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A high-tech neutralization system that foils airborne pathogens, tough-but-flexible body armor and a more efficient quantum computing method are The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's top inventions for 2003.

Griffin oversees the second-largest department at the Laboratory, with more than 600 specialists tackling some of NASA's and the military's toughest space science and engineering challenges.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will honor 220 inventors and announce its top inventions for 2003 at its fifth annual Invention of the Year ceremony on Tuesday, April 20

HSSTAC has been established to serve as a source of independent scientific and technical planning advice to the Under Secretary for Science and Technology.

Secured in an air-conditioned moving van, MESSENGER set out from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt on March 9 and reached Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station the next day.

More than 100 Maryland middle school students will discover how weather in space affects life on Earth and what creates brilliant light shows in the sky (auroras) when they meet with Johns Hopkins APL scientists during Space Academy: Space Weather.

Gingras serves as chief advisor to the Laboratory's director, Richard T. Roca, and assumes responsibility for many administrative tasks involving Laboratory management, sponsors and university business.

Ronald R. Luman has been appointed head of the Joint Warfare Analysis Department, which evaluates joint warfare systems and forces.

Less than six months from its scheduled launch to Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is set for the next round of tests to prepare it for the first orbital study of the innermost planet.

As Technical Direction Agent for both SM-3 and Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense programs, APL plays a key role in flight tests, including Flight Mission-6.