Press Release
Aug 7, 2025
ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL Names Terlaje Chief Government Relations Officer
Melissa Terlaje has been appointed chief government relations officer at APL. In this role, she will lead the Laboratory’s strategic engagements with government sponsors and stakeholders, ensuring APL’s critical contributions remain aligned with and continue to advance national priorities. Additionally, she will serve as board secretary for the Laboratory’s Board of Managers, which provides oversight of APL.
News
Aug 7, 2025
ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL Takes a Quantum Approach to Tracking Online Trends
APL researchers have demonstrated that a quantum algorithm can be used to speed up an information analysis task that classical computers struggle to perform.
Press Release
Aug 5, 2025
Design Standard Update Improves Modular Architecture for Unmanned Platforms
Revision 6.1 of the Modular Payload Design Standard, developed by a collaborative team of government and industry partners led by ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL, marks a significant evolution in the way electronic warfare, signals intelligence and communications payloads are conceived, integrated and sustained across unmanned and dismounted platforms.
Press Release
Aug 1, 2025
In Memoriam: ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL Senior Fellow Phil E. DePoy
APL mourns the passing of former Senior Fellow Phil E. DePoy, who died July 12 at the age of 89. In 2014, DePoy was named one of the Laboratory’s first four Senior Fellows.
Press Release
Jul 28, 2025
Lunar Innovation Consortium Powering a Path Back to the Moon
Starting as a one-day meeting on the ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL campus in 2020, the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium has since become a catalyst for technical collaboration and a driving force in the nation’s return to the Moon.
Press Release
Jul 24, 2025
Science in REAL Time: CubeSat Set to Explore Earth’s Radiation Belts
NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) spacecraft, developed and managed by ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL, launched successfully from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 23. The CubeSat mission will investigate the mysterious forces that can cause energetic particles to fall from Earth’s radiation belts, posing a threat to orbiting infrastructure.
News
Jul 22, 2025
NASA, ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL Poised to Demonstrate Next-Gen Spacecraft Comms Technology
As NASA prepares to commercialize satellite relay services, APL engineers are developing an effective and efficient way for spacecraft to relay data and communicate in low Earth orbit.
Press Release
Jul 16, 2025
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever been before, the images are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.
Press Release
Jul 15, 2025
Giare Named Head of ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL’s Air and Missile Defense Sector
Vishal Giare has been appointed head of APL’s Air and Missile Defense Sector, where he will lead APL’s efforts to advance the nation’s ability to defend our homeland, deployed forces, allies and partners against increasingly complex adversary threats.
Press Release
Jul 8, 2025
Commercial Collaborations Enable Agile, Reliable Space Solutions
For nearly a decade, ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL and Blue Canyon Technologies have collaborated on agile, reliable space solutions for government sponsors, enabling faster and more cost-effective space missions across civil space and national security sectors.