The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

For more than 70 years, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has provided critical contributions to critical challenges with systems engineering and integration, technology research and development, and analysis. Its scientists, engineers, and analysts serve as trusted advisors and technical experts to the government, ensuring the reliability of complex technologies that safeguard the nation’s security and advance the frontiers of space. APL also maintains independent research and development programs that pioneer and explore emerging technologies and concepts to address future national priorities. Founded in 1942 to aid a country at war, APL provides solutions to national security and scientific challenges with systems engineering and integration, research and development, and analysis.