Critical Contributions to Critical Challenges | June 11, 2025

A trusted authority on strategic approaches to national security challenges, Lisa Blodgett will execute Johns Hopkins APL’s strategic planning process, lead senior-level engagement with government stakeholders, direct enterprise financial investment in support of the Lab’s mission and build on existing productive relationships with industry.

Researchers at APL, in collaboration with Samsung Research, have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today’s commercial systems. Driven by the Lab’s patented nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric materials and devices, this innovation paves the way for compact, reliable and scalable cooling solutions that could potentially replace traditional compressors across a range of industries.

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 numbers in use for cryptography schemes. But how such a computer would be created remains unclear. With help from the Lab, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is attempting to define, in practical terms, what a useful quantum computer looks like and how it must be built.

As head of APL’s Strategic Deterrence Mission Area, Robert Vercher will lead a mission area that provides key engineering capabilities and technical analyses and evaluations to ensure the performance and reliability of U.S. Navy and Air Force strategic systems.

Sponsored by APL’s XR Collaboration Center, the sixth annual XR Symposium will take place at APL on July 9 and 10. Open to staff members, sponsors and Lab partners, the symposium will feature both internal and external work that leverages virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) technologies — collectively known as extended reality (XR) — that expands the technical capabilities of APL, as well as the Lab’s sponsors and collaborators. During the symposium, presenters will demonstrate their XR projects and engage attendees with hands-on presentations.

Kostas Gerasopoulos and Robert Osiander are the Lab’s newest Master Inventors — a select group of Laboratory staff members celebrated for careers focused on innovation and securing patents based on APL intellectual property.

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