A trusted authority on strategic approaches to national security challenges, Lisa Blodgett will execute APL’s strategic ...

Students are responsible for answering the questions asked in the application themselves with minimal help from an adult.

Kostas Gerasopoulos and Robert Osiander are APL’s newest Master Inventors — a select group of Laboratory staff members ...

Designing, building, and applying new technologies—especially those that include artificial intelligence—can be a double-edged sword: powerful and enabling on the one hand, but potentially biased and ...

Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, retired, has joined APL as senior advisor focused on homeland defense. VanHerck brings ...

Researchers have touted the revolutionary potential of quantum computers to take on otherwise intractable challenges, like modeling complex molecular behavior for drug discovery or factoring enormous ...

Have you taken an Ignite course before and want to register for another course? Check the timeline to see when registration opens. Courses fill up quickly because class sizes are small (1:10 ...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has named Robert Vercher as the Strategic Deterrence Mission Area Executive. Vercher will lead a mission area that provides key ...

Learn more about courses for middle school students offered through APL’s STEM Academy Ignite program. Courses are offered based on instructor availability. Review the timeline and course schedule for ...

Visit the STEM Academy Ignite page for the middle school program (grades 6-8). Learn technical and workplace essential skills from practicing APL computer scientists, engineers, and other STEM ...

Rob Vercher is the mission area executive for Strategic Deterrence at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). He is responsible for over 600 staff and approximately $240 million in annual ...