Critical Contributions to Critical Challenges  •  October 08, 2024

Rapidly Fielding Autonomous Systems at Sea

As the Navy continues to develop autonomous systems and deploy them at sea, Johns Hopkins APL researchers are lending their expertise and insights to rapidly integrate, test and assess low-cost uncrewed maritime systems.

APL Scientist Rawafi Covers Our Connections to the Sun at TED2024

APL astrophysicist Nour Rawafi took center stage this spring at TED2024 to shed light on the Sun’s mysteries and their significance for humanity’s future. Now available online, the talk highlights his expertise as project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is helping to unlock the Sun’s secrets and transform our understanding of our nearest star.

APL Earns Federal Quantum Computing Award to Propel Science Discoveries

A national research team led by quantum information scientist Gregory Quiroz at APL has earned a competitive quantum computing award from the Department of Energy to fund the engineering of potentially game-changing open-source software systems to propel scientific discoveries.

Society of Women Engineers Honors Lab

The APL Women in Technology (AWiT) affinity group has earned the Gold Mission Recognition Award from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), marking the group’s fourth Gold honor and fifth consecutive Mission Award.

NASA’s EZIE Mission Set for 2025 Launch

NASA’s first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of the auroral electrojets is now on pace for launch in 2025. EZIE, led by APL, will make groundbreaking measurements of the electrojets — intense electrical currents that are part of the spectacular aurora — that flow high in the atmosphere in a thin layer separating Earth and the surrounding space.

2024 Cislunar Security Conference

Dec. 4-6 • Johns Hopkins APL, Laurel, MD

The Cislunar Security conference, which is hosted annually by the Lab, is the premier opportunity for U.S. stakeholders to discuss new and evolving critical challenges in the cislunar domain. This year’s conference will be held Dec. 4-6 and will highlight security challenges associated with increasing exploration and utilization of the cislunar regime and promote dialogue on solutions to these challenges. U.S. citizenship is required.

Galfond Celebrated as an Outstanding Woman in Aerospace

APL engineer Marissa Galfond has been honored with the Women in Aerospace 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award for her technical contributions and leadership in the development of a revolutionary weapon-survivability modeling and simulation software application.

DeLaHunt Honored With Two Prestigious Awards Recognizing Women in Engineering

Sylvie DeLaHunt, an aerospace engineer and assistant supervisor of APL’s Discovery Program, has been named the recipient of two prestigious awards — the Society of Women Engineers Emerging Advocate Award and the Women in Aerospace Initiative, Inspiration, Impact Award.

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