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Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an innovative navigation system designed to help blind or visually impaired users of prosthetic vision devices by improving their independence and mobility through enhanced environmental awareness and navigation support.

A proposal in which APL played a critical role is among a group of three chosen by NASA to study space weather and how it links to Earth’s atmosphere.

Building on more than a decade of pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can do in air combat, engineers and air combat specialists at Johns Hopkins APL have made significant progress in creating a copilot that will grant the power, speed and precision of machine computation to human fighter pilots.

Co-sponsored by Commander, Submarine Forces, and the Naval Submarine League and hosted by APL, the 36th annual Submarine Technology Symposium explored how technology developers are reacting to the evolving state of undersea and seabed warfare. Many speakers cited how, during the next few years and decades, the trilateral security agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — known as AUKUS — will counter the aggressive growth of undersea capabilities among adversaries.

APL honored nearly 180 staff members for their exceptional contributions in 2023 during the Laboratory’s annual Achievement Awards ceremony.

In a show of how far DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program has come in its goal of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into combat scenarios — and increasing trust in this level of autonomy — Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall gamely strapped into the cockpit of an AI-piloted F-16 fighter jet and prepared for takeoff.

Each year, the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council announces its Diversity Recognition Awards, recognizing individuals and groups across all divisions of the university for their efforts to make their workplaces more inclusive. This year, four awards — two individual and two group — went to APL recipients.

By harnessing recent technological breakthroughs in physiological monitoring and machine learning, researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, have made significant strides toward creating objective digital measures for assessing and tracking mental health.

For the second year in a row, APL research analyst Susanne Wirwille directed a NATO Science and Technology Organization multi-domain space deterrence wargame. This year’s event was held in the Netherlands and brought together 37 participants from nine NATO nations to develop and test a comprehensive space deterrence framework.