The Lab
The Lab is a series of narrated audio news articles from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) that demonstrate APL’s groundbreaking contributions to solving many of the most complex research, engineering and analytical problems facing our nation. The Lab reveals how APL tackles increasingly difficult challenges with impacts across multiple domains from deep sea to deep space to cyber to biology and beyond by combining creativity and technical expertise with a culture of risk-taking. This audio was generated using AI voice technology.
Episodes
APL has been awarded one of three new NASA science investigations designed to strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. The research payloads will be integrated into the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign, with delivery to the lunar surface planned for 2028. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/a4f
Leonard Moss Jr. has been appointed to the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC), the nation’s primary forum for evaluating and recommending changes to the policies that guide the National Industrial Security Program. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/a8a
The Next Generation Jammer features high-power amplifier technology and an extended range. APL provided technical insight and worked with government and industry partners to mature critical technologies for a more advanced jammer. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/648
Learning from an anomaly during the first BOLT-1A flight, the successful BOLT-1B follow-on flight experiment collected hundreds of critical measurements, providing data to advance understanding of complex physics important to hypersonic flight.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/2c9
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and space weather.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/35e
NASA and APL have successfully tested a wideband technology that enabled, for the first time, a spacecraft to communicate with both government and commercial networks. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/61e
APL has named Yu-Han “Hugh” Chen as head of the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD). Chen, who previously served as the department’s chief analyst, will lead APL’s work providing integrated technical and operational analysis to inform national security decisions. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/966
A predictive space weather model developed by APL and partners that is designed to simulate how solar storms affect Earth is now widely available to researchers and the broader public. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/5eb
CINEMA, a mission to improve understanding of the growing impacts of space weather, has been competitively selected by NASA for development.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/8cb
For the eighth consecutive year, APL appears on Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT list, which recognizes the top workplaces worldwide for information technology professionals. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/f13
Patrick Stadter has been appointed mission area executive for Theater Defense within the Air and Missile Defense Sector at APL. In this role, Stadter will lead efforts to deliver innovative solutions that strengthen the nation’s air and missile defense capabilities. His extensive experience in aerospace systems and national security will be pivotal in guiding the Laboratory’s teams currently developing technologies that help protec...
APL and Microsoft recently demonstrated an AI agent that can coordinate heterogeneous robot teams using large language models. The September demo highlighted how APL’s expertise in autonomy software and Microsoft’s scalable cloud tools are advancing the future of collaborative robotics. The effort reflects steady progress in a partnership focused on applying artificial intelligence to real-world challenges. Read the full article: h...
In the newly created role of APL chief mission engineering and integration officer, Christopher R. Watkins will lead efforts to strengthen cross-Laboratory collaboration, integrate multidisciplinary capabilities, and accelerate the development and transition of innovative technologies for national security. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/d8e
Since formalizing a partnership last fall, APL and Intuitive Machines have made marked progress toward building communications and navigation systems to enable a sustained U.S. presence on and around the Moon. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/95d
A team from Johns Hopkins APL and Johns Hopkins University has broken new ground in understanding quantum noise — a major source of error in quantum computing. Their findings, published in Physical Review Letters, address a critical challenge that must be solved to develop useful quantum computers. Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/11a
Johns Hopkins APL has installed a state-of-the-art robotic arm to advance repair and manufacturing for the maritime industrial base. Using wire arc additive manufacturing and advanced sensing technologies, the system makes faster, more precise repairs of oversized components possible — strengthening fleet readiness and reducing costs. This innovation builds on APL’s commitment to supporting Navy sustainment and industrial agility.
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APL is fusing its analytic and cutting-edge AI capabilities into a forward-leaning incubator, known as GenWar Lab, that leverages advanced AI and large language model capabilities to support the wargames and tabletop exercises that enable military decision-makers to explore dynamic and wide-ranging mission scenarios.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/598
At Johns Hopkins APL, engineer Dave Porter adapted upstream data fusion methods developed for threat detection to medical imaging. His team’s patented AI techniques combine multiple imaging sources to detect breast cancer with greater speed and precision, marking a breakthrough in diagnostic screening.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/cjf
A Johns Hopkins APL team has developed a framework for standardizing alerts transmitted by cybersecurity systems defending critical infrastructure, dramatically improving the efficiency with which they respond to potential attacks.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/f47
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) completed its Flight Readiness Review on Sept. 18, which certifies its readiness to initiate final launch preparation activities. IMAP is targeting a launch date of Sept. 23 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read the full article: https://jhuapl.link/85e
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