Mission Areas
Johns Hopkins APL’s 13 mission areas are organized and equipped to meet unique sponsor and mission needs, providing them with dedicated, on-call engineering, scientific, and analytical expertise.
Our highly skilled and technically diverse teams of scientists and engineers apply their expertise and operational knowledge in world-class facilities, enabling us to deliver innovative solutions to the nation’s most complex challenges.
Civil Space Flight →
Delivering critical spaceflight hardware to NASA, international partners, and other U.S. government civilian agencies
Cyber Operations →
Creating disruptive capabilities to ensure U.S. asymmetric advantage in cyberspace
Global Health →
Eliminating naturally occurring, deliberate, and accidental health threats through revolutionary science and engineering
Homeland Defense →
Developing innovative and effective solutions to defend the U.S. homeland and its critical infrastructure from increasingly diverse and sophisticated adversary threats
National Security Analysis →
Combining innovative technical knowledge and operational analysis to create emerging capability solutions to national security challenges
National Security Space →
Enabling mission partners at all levels of government to realize critically important missions for national security
Precision Strike →
Delivering critical precision strike contributions, addressing tactical aircraft, kinetic and non-kinetic weapon systems, and end-to-end capability development and demonstration
Research and Exploratory Development →
Conducting pioneering research targeting game-changing breakthroughs to benefit national security missions
Sea Control →
Supporting U.S. Navy and joint service missions and delivering essential capabilities to project military power on, under, and above the seas
Space Formulation →
Leveraging the expertise of world-class scientists and engineers to provide NASA and our partners with innovative solutions to the critical challenges they face in the space domain
Special Operations →
Creating disruptive capabilities that enable special intelligence operations to rapidly characterize and defeat asymmetric threats
Strategic Deterrence →
Transforming strategic systems from their legacy nuclear mission to a broad set of responses to current and future national security challenges
Theater Defense →
Creating innovative and effective system solutions to defend forward-deployed U.S. forces, allies, and partners across the globe from the threat of air and missile attack