![Dan Anna](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210601b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 1, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL's Anna Named AIHA Fellow
Dan Anna, assistant supervisor of APL’s Environmental Health and Safety Group, was recently named an American Industrial Hygiene Association fellow — a prestigious honor granted to less than 5% of the association’s membership.
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Feature Story
May 24, 2021
The Subset Seekers
Data scientists from Johns Hopkins APL and clinicians used artificial intelligence to predict whether a COVID-19 patient is likely to become a severe or mild case. But the process has turned up its own surprises about the individuality of this disease and underscored the need to tailor a person’s medical treatment precisely.
![Water treatment facility](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210519_image1_lg.jpg)
News
May 19, 2021
Novel Technologies Bolster Cybersecurity at Water Treatment Plants
Johns Hopkins APL is designing cost-effective cyberdefense technologies that are strong enough to repel serious cyberattacks but affordable enough to be purchased and easily implemented by the nation’s diverse industrial control system operators, including at water treatment facilities.
![In its research, the APL team synthesized aluminum niobate from scratch using a method that could be replicated at commercial scale, and demonstrated operation in pouch cells (seen here) — one of the main types of commercial batteries — with high energy. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL/Craig Weiman](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210513_image1_med.jpeg)
Press Release
May 13, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Research Team Tackles Electrode in Quest for Safer Batteries
A team of APL researchers has developed a scalable process for producing a safe, high-energy-density battery anode — another landmark achievement in the Laboratory’s quest to create effective, durable lithium-ion batteries.
![APL Achievement Awards](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210512_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
May 12, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Honors Staff Innovation in Annual Achievement Awards Ceremony
Held virtually for the second consecutive year, the APL Achievement Awards included honors for a range of impactful projects and accomplishments.
![Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) AN/SPY-6 (SPY-6) array](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210510_image1_lg_0.jpg)
News
May 10, 2021
Johns Hopkins APL Contributes ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Navy SPY-6 Radar System Upgrade
Raytheon and APL delivered the first Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) AN/SPY-6 (SPY-6) array for installation to the U.S. Navy for DDG-125, the latest destroyer in the Arleigh Burke class.
![Jim Bellingham](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210507_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
May 7, 2021
Marine Robotics Pioneer Bellingham to Lead Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy
Jim Bellingham, a pioneer in the worldwide autonomous marine robotics field who has led research expeditions from the Arctic to the Antarctic, has been appointed executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) in Baltimore, run jointly by Johns Hopkins APL and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. For more than 30 years, Bellingham has been a global leader in the development of small, high-performance autonomous underwater vehicles, resulting in a class of systems that are now widely used within the military, industry and science communities.
![Pedro Rodriguez](/sites/default/files/2023-01/Pedro-Rodriguez_cover-image.jpg)
Feature Story
Apr 27, 2021
Pedro Rodriguez: Natural Intelligence
A search for precision led Pedro Rodriguez into his career as an electrical engineer, but because of his insights into new possibilities, he now helps lead Johns Hopkins APL’s AI and machine-learning efforts. Today, he sees the potential power and precision of artificial intelligence and machine-learning tools as keys to better protect a changing world.
![COVID Dashboard](/sites/default/files/2023-01/COVID-dashboard-story_bg-img.jpg)
Feature Story
Apr 26, 2021
‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History
As COVID-19 cases multiplied in early 2020, so too did the number of users turning to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard, which tracked global cases of COVID-19 in real time and quickly became the go-to source for the public, the news media and even the U.S. government. But the system’s early infrastructure buckled under the sheer proliferation of data as cases continued to explode worldwide. This is the story of how the most trusted, accurate source of information available on the pandemic came to be, and how it became the data source relied upon globally for near-real-time tracking of the biggest health crisis this century.
![The Honorable Ellen M. Lord](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20210420b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Apr 20, 2021
Hon. Ellen Lord, Former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Named Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins APL
The Honorable Ellen M. Lord, former undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment in the Department of Defense, has joined APL as a Senior Fellow.