APL Advances — November 2022

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory • APL Advances

Critical Contributions to Critical Challenges • November 08, 2022

This imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after the asteroid was intentionally impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on Sept. 26.

DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space

Analysis of data obtained by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.

James Johnson and Danielle Nachman in APL’s PFAS research laboratory.

Johns Hopkins APL Develops Methods to Capture and Destroy ‘Forever Chemicals’

The Environmental Protection Agency recently declared perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, an urgent public health and environmental issue. APL scientists recently demonstrated a technique to capture PFAS and two ecofriendly ways to destroy them, building a portfolio of technologies aimed at enabling full PFAS remediation.

Supported by APL’s Intelligent Systems Center, the core team behind Meta Arcade includes DRL researcher Ted Staley (pictured above), AI engineer Chace Ashcraft and researcher Ben Stoler, all from the Lab’s Research and Exploratory Development Department.

APL Trains AI to Adapt Through Video Games

Developed by APL researchers, initially under DARPA's Lifelong Learning Machines program, Meta Arcade enables the artificial intelligence community to modify common arcade games and measure how well an autonomous agent can handle those changes.

Air Force staff prepare for an early morning flight.

Laboratory Executives Appointed to Defense Science Board

Two APL executives — James Miller and David Van Wie — have been appointed to the Defense Science Board, a federal advisory committee chartered to provide Department of Defense leadership with independent advice and recommendations on matters related to strengthening national security.

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The Submarine Technology Symposium will take place at APL from May 9-11, 2023.

Call for Abstracts: 2023 Submarine Technology Symposium

May 9-11, 2023 • APL's Kossiakoff Center

Submarine Technology Symposium (STS) is a three-day conference held at APL that is a premiere opportunity for U.S. Navy leadership, industry and academia to engage in productive technical exchanges. The symposium includes selected displays of new technology developments. Speakers generally allow time for Q&A, and there is time for discussion and networking. Members of industry, government and academia are invited to submit abstracts for presentation. Submission deadline is Nov. 18, 2022. Presentations and exhibits will be selected based on technical content and relevance to the symposium theme and session topics.

Bowman, Phillips Earn Society of Women Engineers Honors

Recognizing the leadership and technical contributions of two APL staff members, the Society of Women Engineers has honored Alice Bowman with the prestigious 2022 Resnik Challenger Medal and Kerri Phillips with its Emerging Leader Award.

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