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Johns Hopkins APL Research Helps Shape Landmark Federal Expansion of Unmanned Aircraft Operations

APL’s involvement in unmanned aircraft safety traces back to its earlier work on collision avoidance for manned aviation. Researchers supported the FAA’s development of the Airborne Collision ...
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Johns Hopkins Selects Caporaletti to Chair Engineering Management Graduate Program

Stephanie Caporaletti, assistant branch supervisor in the Asymmetric Operations Sector at APL, has been appointed as chair of ...
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Geesaman Appointed Precision Strike Mission Area Executive at Johns Hopkins APL

Brian Geesaman will lead a diverse portfolio of programs and initiatives focused on integrated strike warfare capabilities, ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Experts Named to Department of War’s First Science, Technology and Innovation Board

Mitch Nikolich and James Gosler, national security experts from APL, have been named to the Department of War’s first Science ...
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Johns Hopkins APL-Supported Researchers Turn Biological Innovation Into a New Startup

With support from APL, former staff members John Sittmann and Tom Curtis have launched Deep Root Biolabs, a startup advancing ...
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‘We Had to Get This Right’: How Johns Hopkins Built the Coronavirus Tracking Global Dashboard: An Oral History

Rumblings of a mysterious new virus impacting the region of Wuhan, China, began making the news rounds in the U.S. starting in early 2020. At the time, the virus seemed like a distant worry — too far ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, Microsoft Collaborate to Advance Robotics and Materials Discovery Using AI

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Microsoft, of Redmond, Washington, have agreed to collaborate to accelerate innovation in robotics and materials discovery ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...
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Generative AI Wargaming Promises to Accelerate Mission Analysis

A team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is creating an artificial intelligence-driven capability that automates much of the work that goes into designing, ...
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Paving the Way

The corner conference room in Building 26 on the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Laurel, Maryland, campus is small and windowed. On most days, it is indistinguishable from the many quiet ...
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Lunar Vertex: Solving Mysteries Swirling Around the Moon’s Magnetic Regions

First spied through primitive telescopes in the 1600s, Reiner Gamma is the most famous of the Moon’s so-called swirls, intriguing patterns of bright and dark soil that snake across the lunar surface.