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Send Your Name to Titan Aboard NASA’s Dragonfly

You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send their names aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft and be part of ...
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Mars-Bound Johns Hopkins APL Instrument to Provide New Look at Martian Moons

The APL-developed MEGANE spectrometer will help scientists investigate the origins of the Red Planet’s small potato-shaped ...
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Johns Hopkins APL’s Frontier-X Wins 2024 R&D 100 Award for Revolutionizing Space Communications

Frontier-X, a breakthrough space communications technology developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was selected as a 2024 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Technology Targets Earlier Stress-Fracture Detection

Tibial stress fractures are among the most common overuse injuries affecting military personnel, but they can be difficult to identify in their earliest stages. Small stresses in the bone may develop ...
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Accelerating Materials Innovation for Defense

APL researchers, funded by the Department of War’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program, are developing a novel materials science paradigm called Transforming Evaluation and Testing via ...
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Grants/Cooperative Agreements

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is required to comply with conflict of interest and disclosure requirements of certain federal government agencies for grants and ...
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AI-Piloted Aviation

APL has served as a core member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program since the 2020 AlphaDogfight Trials, a virtual showdown between eight AI ...
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Dragonfly Mission Confirmed for 2028 Launch to Saturn’s Moon Titan

NASA has confirmed its revolutionary Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision, announced April 16, allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, ...
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Generative Wargaming

Wargaming has long been a vital method for understanding human decision-making in complex, uncertain environments by harnessing the power of experiential learning. While traditional wargames offer ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, University of Colorado Boulder Formalize National Security Research Partnership

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) have signed a master research agreement that expands their existing ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...