“APL in the Twenty-First Century”: A Retrospective on the 1983 Report to the Director

Abstract

In 1983, at the behest of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) director, an accomplished group called the APL senior fellows produced a report on the projected state of the Laboratory at the beginning of the 21st century. This article presents a retrospective on that report, which Identified key technologies, relationships, and environmental factors that would be important to APL at the dawn of the 21st century and beyond. In this article, these key items are identified, discussed, and assessed for their relevance (or not) to the current state of the Laboratory.