Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Industrial Torch Fuels Faster Development of Materials for Extreme Environments

Engineers at Johns Hopkins APL have demonstrated a fast, low-cost way to screen materials for extreme aerospace environments using a common industrial torch, helping developers narrow promising ...
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Hopkins Collaboration Expands Access to Maritime Testing and Advanced Sensing

Students from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) collaborated with researchers at Johns Hopkins APL to ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Breakthrough Puts Heat-Resistant Materials on a Faster Track

A novel approach for making carbon-carbon composites could replace the slow, labor-intensive manufacturing process that has constrained the material’s availability and driven up its cost. Developed by ...
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Three Johns Hopkins APL Innovations Earn 2026 R&D 100 Honors

Three technologies developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have been named as winners of 2026 R&D 100 Awards, which recognize the year’s ...
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Johns Hopkins APL’s Stadter Named Vice Chair of Air Force Scientific Advisory Board

Patrick Stadter, mission area executive for Theater Defense at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been appointed vice chair of the Department of the Air Force ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Contributions Fuel Critical Navy Cybersecurity System

The Navy-engineered Situational Awareness, Boundary Enforcement, and Response (SABER) system, with key capabilities developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Named a Fast Company Most Innovative Company for 2026

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026, ranking 13 in the Security category for developing ...
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Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage

In the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, Emory Toomey (left) and Hunter Reeling integrate the engineering model of Dragonfly’s Integrated Electronics ...
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NASA’s IMAP Reaches Orbit to Start Study of Heliosphere and Space Weather

After a three-and-a-half-month journey, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has finally reached its destination, a strategic location between the Sun and Earth where it will ...
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NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL-Developed CINEMA Mission to Study Space Weather

NASA has selected Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to begin developing a mission that will shed more light on the growing impacts of space ...
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Johns Hopkins Team Breaks Through Quantum Noise

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have achieved a breakthrough in quantum noise characterization in ...