Fast Company has recognized APL among its Best Workplaces for Innovators for the eighth consecutive year, honoring the Lab’s commitment to empowering staff to explore game-changing concepts that address critical national challenges.

For more than 15 years, a Lab-designed capability for tracking multiple moving targets has been powering critical sea, land, and air defense systems. Known as Precision Engagement of Moving Targets, or PEMT, the system uses an ingenious blend of innovations in data fusion; computational resource management; and intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting and continues to meet evolving mission needs.

APL engineers have developed a novel approach for making carbon-carbon composites, cutting production times from months to days. The new approach could ease long-standing supply constraints for one of the most critical high-temperature materials in the aerospace and defense industries.

The BioHorizons conference convened experts from across the biotechnology industry to explore how to keep the U.S. at the forefront of biotechnology research and development and how to best transition critical capabilities from the lab to the field.

Combining phase-change materials with additive manufacturing, Lab engineers are developing a capability to help manage heat in systems where space and weight are limited.

The seventh annual Cislunar Security Conference will convene leaders from government, industry, and academia to uncover the technologies, partnerships, and policies required to enable sustained operations, mission assurance, and space superiority across the cislunar domain. From space domain awareness and resilient communications to logistics, infrastructure, and security cooperation, participants will drive action today to shape tomorrow’s operational and strategic advantage in space.

Tim Lippa has been named APL’s Global Health mission area executive, where he leads efforts spanning warfighter health and readiness, biosurveillance, and technologies to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) threats.

The U.S. electric power grid, built for peacetime reliability, faces a potentially catastrophic vulnerability in wartime. Its three major interconnections—Eastern, Western, and Texas—have tightly integrated electric systems that can move power around to respond to disruptions caused by severe weather or other hazards. But that connectivity also creates opportunities for adversary exploitation. This study proposes how grid operators and their government partners can create preplanned, multistate “strategic power islands” that separate from the interconnections when cascading failures are imminent or underway.

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