Students from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) collaborated with researchers at Johns Hopkins APL to make maritime testing and optical sensing more accessible and cost-effective. ...

Patrick Stadter, APL’s mission area executive for Theater Defense, has been named vice chair of the Department of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, bringing decades of technical leadership in m...

Whether addressing the shortage of organs for transplant, harvesting hydrogen in revolutionary ways, or enabling flight in very low Earth orbit, the latest three winning SURPASS projects unite experts...

Johns Hopkins APL’s Larry Paxton has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Throughout his career, Paxton has helped deepen scientists’ understanding of Earth’s upper atmosphere thro...

APL’s new Sea++ test vessel gives researchers and government sponsors a dedicated platform to rapidly test, evaluate, and demonstrate emerging maritime technologies in realistic operational environmen...

The purpose of the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) is to harness the creativity, energy, and resources of the nation to help NASA keep the United States at the forefront of lunar exploratio...

On September 5, 1986, the experimental Delta 180 carrying an inventive APL-designed-and-built missile sensor package is launched from Cape Canaveral.

Johns Hopkins APL scientists are developing a portable quantum sensing platform using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy that has potential to enable warfighters and others working in contested e...

Three technologies developed by APL researchers have been named as winners of 2026 R&D 100 Awards. APL’s winning innovations span health care, space communications, and advanced manufacturing, reflect...

The BioHorizons conference convened experts from across the biotechnology industry to explore how to keep the U.S. at the forefront of biotechnology research and development and how to best transition...

Tim Lippa has been named APL’s Global Health mission area executive, where he leads efforts spanning warfighter health and readiness, biosurveillance, and technologies to counter chemical, biological,...

APL engineers have developed a novel approach for making carbon-carbon composites, cutting production times from months to days. The new approach could ease long-standing supply constraints for one of...

Combining phase-change materials with additive manufacturing, APL engineers are developing a capability to help manage heat in systems where space and weight are limited.

For more than 15 years, an APL-designed capability for tracking multiple moving targets has been powering critical sea, land, and air defense systems. Known as Precision Engagement of Moving Targets, ...

Scientists Sam Yee and Scott Murchie were jointly awarded APL’s Lifetime Publication Achievement Award for work that has documented discovery, driven space missions, shaped scientific priorities, and ...

APL researchers are developing biologically driven thermal sensors that could operate without conventional electrical power.

Whether addressing the shortage of organs for transplant, harvesting hydrogen in revolutionary ways, or enabling flight in very low Earth orbit, the latest three winning SURPASS projects unite experts...

At the single biggest sporting event in U.S. history, drawing 5 million international visitors to 11 U.S. cities for 78 matches over the course of 39 days, APL is playing a central role in ensuring th...

Donya Douglas-Bradshaw will lead APL programs to deliver critical spaceflight hardware to NASA, U.S. government civilian agencies, and other partners.

Three technologies developed by APL researchers have been named as winners of 2026 R&D 100 Awards. APL’s winning innovations span health care, space communications, and advanced manufacturing, reflect...

Christopher Hoffman has been recognized as a Johns Hopkins APL Master Inventor, a distinction earned through a career spent asking a simple question: What can chemistry can do to solve a real-world pr...

Patrick Stadter, APL’s mission area executive for Theater Defense, has been named vice chair of the Department of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, bringing decades of technical leadership in m...

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 2025 Annual Report

An augmented-reality-enabled medical guidance system developed at APL has been recognized by Fast Company as a “World Changing Idea” for its potential to improve trauma care where advanced medical exp...

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Johns Hopkins APL researchers are using encapsulation, a technique that traps reactive chemicals inside microscopic shells, to control when materials activate and advance applications such as underwat...

Scientists Sam Yee and Scott Murchie were jointly awarded APL’s Lifetime Publication Achievement Award for work that has documented discovery, driven space missions, shaped scientific priorities, and ...

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More than 600 attendees representing the U.S. Navy submarine force, allied nations, industry, and academia gathered at Johns Hopkins APL for the annual Submarine Technology Symposium.

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NASA’s Dragonfly mission has reached another development milestone, with structural testing of the rotorcraft lander now complete. The milestone clears the way for the next phase of integration, when ...

At the single biggest sporting event in U.S. history, drawing 5 million international visitors to 11 U.S. cities for 78 matches over the course of 39 days, APL is playing a central role in ensuring th...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins APL and Johns Hopkins University have developed a practical, comprehensive noise-modeling framework for quantum computers. Their work, published in PRX Quantum, offers a...

Investigating exoplanets and stellar phenomena to refine our picture of the universe

APL is working with the U.S. Army and Navy to develop and prototype autonomous technologies that support rapid clearance of hazards in operational environments, with the goal of transitioning these ca...

Christopher Hoffman has been recognized as a Johns Hopkins APL Master Inventor, a distinction earned through a career spent asking a simple question: What can chemistry can do to solve a real-world pr...

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are investigating the viability and scalability of shelf-stable, freeze-dried red blood cells. With far-reaching implications for trauma care in remote or austere environ...

An augmented-reality-enabled medical guidance system developed at APL has been recognized by Fast Company as a “World Changing Idea” for its potential to improve trauma care where advanced medical exp...

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are using encapsulation, a technique that traps reactive chemicals inside microscopic shells, to control when materials activate and advance applications such as underwat...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins APL successfully tested an innovative chemical destruction system known as the Pulse Combustion Engine. Critical to the successful test were the development and application...