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Researching novel materials — and in particular, characterizing their properties to ensure they’ll function as intended — is time consuming, resource intensive and expensive. APL is leveraging its expertise in artificial intelligence/machine learning, modeling and simulation, and materials science, as well as its additive manufacturing capabilities, to accelerate the characterization and analysis pipeline.

Since its founding in 2014 by APL’s Charlie Frick, the High School Cybersecurity Workshop has provided more than 300 students with hands-on cyber defense training.

As APL’s new chief of staff, Erik Johnson tackles a variety of tasks that loom large over the future of the Laboratory. He shares how his mentors and experiences have prepared him to guide the Executive Council’s strategic decision-making agenda — and much more.

Jackie Sharp, a mechanical engineer in APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department, was presented with the annual District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies Young Engineer of the Year award.

Engineers at Johns Hopkins APL are addressing the challenges of collaborating across wide physical distances by taking advantage of new technologies, designing and implementing the Mixed Reality Collaboration Environment framework, or REACTOR. This unique system allows subject-matter experts and analysts to interact and collaborate globally, with no externally hosted servers and with the capability to customize the approach to the user’s needs.

Sylvie DeLaHunt, a senior guidance, navigation and control engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been honored with a WE Local 2022 Engaged Advocate Award from the Society of Women Engineers.

After two years of progress in developing a beyond state-of-the-art computer model, the APL-hubbed Center for Geospace Storms will continue expanding for an additional five years, NASA recently announced, citing the center’s significant potential to transform the fields of space weather and space physics.

APL, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, is leading the development of the first-ever comprehensive, integrated and automated solution for industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity.

APL's Ralph Lorenz is part of an international science team performing the first analysis of acoustics on Mars, releasing a new study that details how fast sound travels through the Red Planet’s extremely thin, mostly carbon-dioxide atmosphere and how Mars might sound to human ears.

To improve the quality of pediatric CPR, immersive technology specialists at APL and pediatric emergency physicians from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are developing an augmented-reality-based CPR coaching system to be used in community care settings.