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With the Sun approaching its next peak in solar activity, space weather experts convened at APL to discuss how top agencies are preparing for a potential impact on national security.

The gamma-ray spectrometer aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully hummed to life just a few weeks after launch. The initial data returned from the instrument, which is one-half of the mission’s Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer, heralds exciting things to come, both for Psyche and future NASA missions.

APL planetary geologist Brett Denevi has earned the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute’s Angioletta Coradini Award for her research accomplishments.

The scientific, economic and national security value of the Moon and its surrounding space has kicked off an era of intense international cooperation and competition. Leveraging its broad and distinguished base of experts, APL is making advancements that will keep the nation at the forefront in the development and exploration of the region.

Nearly 200 analysts and policy experts met at APL to consider strategies to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow through scientific analysis of NATO’s operating methods. In many ways, the NATO discussions echoed the work conducted at APL daily.

James Gosler, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins APL, was presented with the 2022 Eugene G. Fubini Award, in recognition of his significant contributions and sustained outstanding service as an adviser to the Department of Defense. Throughout his long career of national service, Gosler has been a critical resource for key defense studies and has played a significant role in studies defining cybersecurity and advanced intelligence operations.

APL space physicist Joseph Westlake has been named director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division. A researcher who focuses on planetary magnetospheres as well as understanding the structure and processes that produce our local space environment, Westlake assumes his new leadership role within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in January.

NASA’s Dragonfly mission team is moving on to the next stage of development on the revolutionary, car-sized nuclear-powered drone it plans to fly over and land on the organic-rich sands of Saturn’s large moon Titan.

APL has named Dr. Andrew Mara as head of its National Security Analysis Department. Mara joins APL from the Center for Naval Analyses, where he served as executive vice president as well as director of CNA’s Systems, Tactics and Force Development Division. He will lead a 200-person department focused on conducting in-depth analyses for the Laboratory and its government sponsors on critical national security issues.

For the sixth straight year, APL has placed in the top 25 of Computerworld’s “Best Places to Work in IT” list, which recognizes the top worldwide workplaces for information technology professionals.