Former Chief of Naval Operations retired Adm. Gary Roughead has been appointed chair of APL’s Board of Managers, succeeding ...

You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send their names aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft and be part of ...

An augmented-reality-enabled medical guidance system developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has been recognized by Fast Company as a “World Changing Idea” ...

NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...

When it comes to national defense, technology can’t stand still. For more than 15 years, a capability for tracking multiple moving targets has been powering critical sea, land, and air defense systems ...

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 ...

APL is addressing one of the Navy’s most persistent logistical challenges: reloading vertical launching systems (VLSs) at sea. Traditionally, Navy destroyers must return to port to reload their VLS ...

In the information age, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) believe that success in combat will be realized by winning a struggle for information superiority in the operational battlespace.

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Michael Hunt is a senior researcher whose research focuses on the development of novel, functional ceramics and composites meant to operate in extreme environments. His recent work has included the ...

Frontier-X, a breakthrough space communications technology developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was selected as a 2024 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of ...

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...