News Releases

Three APL staff members received Black Engineer of the Year Awards honoring their leadership and recognizing their commitment to inspire the next generation of technical professionals.

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), in partnership with APL and IEEE, is launching the IEEE International Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA). The virtual conference will take place March 22-23.

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are developing coatings that can stand up to the rigors of hypersonic flight in the upper atmosphere. The work leverages APL’s ability to produce custom materials solutions to solve hard problems that stand between success and failure on real missions.

A new analysis examining elemental data from a NASA mission more than a decade ago pins down comets as the source of water ice and volatile elements near the Moon’s South Pole. The finding sheds light on another piece of the Earth-Moon system’s history and underscores the use of the Moon’s ices for revealing that story.

Wonder is, by its very nature, impossible to quantify. But, convinced of the fundamental role of wonder in the scientific enterprise, a team from Johns Hopkins Medicine and APL is leveraging the power of data to foster wonder, inspire novel insights and push the frontiers of precision medicine.

A new NASA mission led by Johns Hopkins APL researcher and engineer James Mason will use specially developed imaging technology to capture the first complete images and video of some of the Sun’s most powerful explosions and unveil the physical mechanisms that drive them.

In recognition of his significant contributions to the nation’s missile defense capabilities, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) engineer Mark Landis has been honored with the prestigious Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Pathfinder award.

Dr. James N. Miller, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and an expert in nuclear deterrence, missile defense, cyber conflict and space policy, has been named as APL’s Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis.

Two planetary scientists from Johns Hopkins APL’s Space Exploration Sector were selected to join NASA’s VIPER mission, the agency’s first-ever lunar rover that will explore the Moon’s south pole and investigate the water ice there.