Concept Design and Realization Branch—Part II: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Abstract

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Concept Design and Realization Branch offers an array of engineering, design, and fabrication capabilities that support the Laboratory’s mission and broad sponsored work. Until 2023, the Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest had not published a comprehensive review of the branch’s work in more than two decades. During those years, manufacturing technologies and the Lab’s capabilities have advanced significantly, as has the complexity of the challenges APL seeks to solve. This issue, the final in a series of two, further highlights APL’s contributions in hardware design, mechanical and electrical fabrication, systems integration, and pioneering manufacturing science. This work not only benefits the Laboratory’s programs and missions of today but also positions APL to contribute to solving the challenges of the future.