Press Release
Jan 30, 2023
Johns Hopkins APL Names Minh Huebner as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business, Construction and Facilities
Minh Huebner has been named chief financial officer and head of APL’s Business, Construction and Facilities Department, effective Jan. 30. She will provide executive leadership and management for APL enterprise business services such as finance and accounting, prime contracting, procurement, regulatory compliance, construction, and facilities maintenance and renovation.
News
Jan 26, 2023
ATLAS Internship Program Launches Careers, Breaks Records
With more than 80 interns on board, the APL Technology Leaders and Scholars (ATLAS) program at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, wrapped up its 23rd summer last year with its largest cohort ever.
News
Jan 24, 2023
Coastal Defenders: Protecting the Nation’s Coasts with Natural Solutions
As sea levels continue to rise, and the need to safeguard our coastlines increases, Johns Hopkins APL researchers are using materials science and marine biology to study and support natural structures that can mitigate erosion.
News
Jan 11, 2023
NASA’s Webb Identifies Its First Exoplanet — And It’s the Size of Earth
A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet — a planet orbiting another star — by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Press Release
Jan 11, 2023
Johns Hopkins APL Again Honored With Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award for Best Places to Work
For the second year in a row, APL was honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award as one of the top 100 Best Places to Work among large U.S. companies.
Feature Story
Jan 10, 2023
Creating a New Cybersecurity Paradigm for a Cloud-Based World
Scientists, mathematicians and engineers at APL are building a new cybersecurity paradigm that’s suited to the realities of how computing and collaborating are done in the 21st century. Their work has applications in health care, weapons systems and space, as well as in protecting critical infrastructure and industry generally.
Press Release
Jan 10, 2023
Scientists May Have Solved Decades-Old Mysteries About the Origins of the Solar Wind
Scientists with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission think they have discovered the processes that give birth to streams of charged particles — called the solar wind — released from the Sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere.
News
Jan 9, 2023
Mistry Takes Internship to New Heights with Virtual Reality Work
Moving across the country at 19 years old is no small feat, but Anika Mistry, who interned at Johns Hopkins APL last summer, was up for the challenge.
Press Release
Jan 5, 2023
Johns Hopkins APL Provides Autonomous Collision Avoidance Technology for Fixed-Wing UAVs
APL researchers have given aerobatic fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) the ability to autonomously navigate complex environments using onboard sensing, a first-of-its-kind achievement.
News
Jan 4, 2023
Climate Change Likely to Affect Communications, Remote Sensing Technologies
A team at APL recently studied the potential impact of climate change on communications and remote sensing systems like radars, and determined that severe changes in Earth’s climate would likely affect these technologies — in some cases for better, in others for worse.