Press Release
Jun 4, 2020
Andy Oak Named Homeland Protection Mission Area Executive at Johns Hopkins APL
Andy Oak has been named mission area executive for Homeland Protection at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he will direct efforts to create disruptive capabilities that safeguard and secure the nation against asymmetric threats.
Press Release
May 29, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Upgrade Global Search and Rescue System
NASA may be best known for focusing on what’s beyond Earth’s atmosphere, but the agency also has another role — searching for human life on our home planet, especially when those lives are in danger. APL staff members are working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and its partners to upgrade NASA’s Search and Rescue system.
Press Release
May 29, 2020
‘It’s Like Playing Chess Blind’: Competition Tests AI Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Last fall, more than 60 teams from around the world signed up for a competition developed by Johns Hopkins APL to advance machine decision-making under uncertainty.
Press Release
May 28, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Administrator Lends Nursing Services to COVID-19 Fight
Teresa Wilburn tuned to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s early announcements on the state’s coronavirus response with keen ear. As the COVID-19 pandemic began to fully take root in the United States, Wilburn, a group office administrator at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, could feel her registered nurse instincts rising to the surface.
Press Release
May 19, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Receives DART Spacecraft Structure and Ramps Up Integration and Testing
On May 15, the primary structure for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft returned to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. Now equipped with its chemical propulsion system and elements of its electrical propulsion system — installed at Aerojet Rocketdyne in Redmond, Washington — the spacecraft will remain at APL through final assembly and prelaunch testing.
Press Release
May 7, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Names Leonard Moss Chief Security Officer
Leonard Moss Jr. has been named chief security officer and head of the Security Services Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Press Release
May 7, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Team Earns AIAA Space Program Management Award
The Johns Hopkins APL team was lauded for balancing elements from science requirements and budgets to schedule and engineering development for the historic voyage to explore the Sun’s blistering environment and mysterious solar wind.
Press Release
May 5, 2020
First Exoplanet Study from Johns Hopkins APL Leaves Researchers Stumped
In the first exoplanet study from Johns Hopkins APL, researchers found that the cloudy atmosphere of WASP-79b, an exoplanet from a solar system nearly 800 light-years away, is almost transparent to blue light, leaving it with a yellow-tinged sky.
Press Release
May 4, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Delivers Prototype Defense Planning and Assessment Tool to USS Bunker Hill
In January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) — part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group — left San Diego for a scheduled Indo-Pacific deployment. Along with 6,000 service members spread between several ships is a new experimental unit designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory that could one day change the way the Navy plans for defeating anti-ship missile attacks.
Press Release
Apr 28, 2020
Fast Company Recognizes Johns Hopkins APL’s Work Among ‘World Changing Ideas’
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was honored in Fast Company magazine’s 2020 World Changing Ideas awards, with four different Laboratory projects earning nods as finalists.