Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Johns Hopkins APL Develops In-House, Mission-Relevant LLM Training Capabilities

A team at APL has developed the capability to build a large language model from the ground up, positioning the Laboratory to ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Engineer Newman Inducted as Military Sensing Symposia Fellow

Andrew Newman has earned a place among the Military Sensing Symposia fellows for his significant contributions to military ...
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Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...
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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
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Johns Hopkins APL, Microsoft Collaborate to Advance Robotics and Materials Discovery Using AI

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Microsoft, of Redmond, Washington, have agreed to collaborate to accelerate innovation in robotics and materials discovery ...
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Lunar Vertex: Solving Mysteries Swirling Around the Moon’s Magnetic Regions

First spied through primitive telescopes in the 1600s, Reiner Gamma is the most famous of the Moon’s so-called swirls, intriguing patterns of bright and dark soil that snake across the lunar surface.
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Johns Hopkins APL Teams with Intuitive Machines to Advance Cislunar Communications and Navigation

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Intuitive Machines Inc., of Houston, have signed a cooperation agreement to partner on providing safe, secure and reliable ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Expertise Supports New Navy Jammer

An updated jammer was developed for the U.S. Navy with advice and expertise from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, which worked with government and industry to ...
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Johns Hopkins Team Breaks Through Quantum Noise

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have achieved a breakthrough in quantum noise characterization in ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Publishes Report on Nation’s First Space Weather Simulation Exercise

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, recently released the results of the nation’s first end-to-end Space Weather Tabletop Exercise (TTX), held in May 2024. The ...
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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 ...