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  • Johns Hopkins APL's Christine Fox Joins Board of Visitors at U.S. Naval Academy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL’s Christine Fox Joins Board of Visitors at U.S. Naval Academy

    President Barack Obama has appointed Christine Fox, assistant director for policy and analysis at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, to the U.S. Naval Academy’s board of visitors. APL said Monday Fox will work with 15 other board members to evaluate matters that concern the academy, including its state of morale and discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs […] More

  • GovCon Industry Pros Recognized in Trending 40's Top DC Corporate Counsels List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Industry Pros Recognized in Trending 40’s Top DC Corporate Counsels List

    Laurence Grayer of Veterans Moving Forward, Gregory Nixon of Cerberus and Josh Petty of Booz Allen Hamilton have made Trending 40’s list of top corporate counsels in Washington, D.C. for 2016. The legal professionals will be honored during a ceremony that will be held Sept. 21 at Crystal City, Virginia. Other honorees include Mitre‘s Julie Bowen, AT&T‘s Rishi Chhatwal, PwC‘s Eliza Nagle, Northrop Grumman‘s Charlton Walker […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Team Develops Datacasting Tech for First Responders; John Contestabile Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Team Develops Datacasting Tech for First Responders; John Contestabile Comments

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a new technology for first responders to gather information during crisis with the use of public television station frequencies. APL said Monday it created the datacasting tool for the Department of Homeland Security‘s first responder group with the goal to transmit video and other data across a wide area. “Datacasting […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Develops Multi-Mission Submersible UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Develops Multi-Mission Submersible UAV

    A team of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researchers has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle the research team designed to submerge into or launch from deep waters to perform various missions. APL said Thursday its force projection sector and research and exploratory development unit collaborated to build a Corrosion Resistant Aerial Covert Unmanned Nautical System prototype. Lab researchers used […] More

  • Paul Stockton, Richard Danzig Named Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Stockton, Richard Danzig Named Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellows

    Paul Stockton and Richard Danzig, respectively former officials at the Defense Department and the U.S. Navy, have been appointed senior fellows of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. “Their experiences leading the nation through challenging times and knowledge of emerging technical challenges will further the lab’s impact for the nation,” APL Director Ralph Semmel said Tuesday. Stockton served as assistant secretary […] More

  • Ball Aerospace-Built Camera to Photograph Pluto From NASA Spacecraft; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace-Built Camera to Photograph Pluto From NASA Spacecraft; Jim Oschmann Comments

    A NASA spacecraft with a Ball Aerospace & Technologies-built camera is scheduled to arrive at Pluto on July 14. Ball Aerospace said Wednesday the 23-pound Ralph camera will work to gather images of the planet as the New Horizons spacecraft performs flybys within 7,000 miles of Pluto. “We know so little about Pluto that we expect the mission […] More

  • Norma Lee Todd: Johns Hopkins APL Records Tech Transfer Increase in 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Norma Lee Todd: Johns Hopkins APL Records Tech Transfer Increase in 2014

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory says it has experienced record growth for initiatives to move its scientific discoveries into the commercial sector in 2014. APL said Wednesday it signed 77 license agreements covering lab-developed technologies this year, up from 40 technology license deals recorded a year ago. The number of invention disclosures from the […] More

  • NASA Launches APL's Planetary Science Balloon; Andy Cheng Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Launches APL’s Planetary Science Balloon; Andy Cheng Comments

    NASA has launched the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-built Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science into space in order to study solar system objects. The spacecraft took off from the Fort Sumner, New Mexico-based NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Research Facility on Thursday and will work to detect organic elements on objects in the solar system, NASA said Thursday. BOPPS […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Announces Top Inventions of 2013; Jerry Krill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Announces Top Inventions of 2013; Jerry Krill Comments

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has recognized a technological invention for predicting new viruses along with other publications and research. Andrew Feldman and Jeffrey Lin of the Research and Exploratory Development Department won the Invention of the Year for 2013 award for their method of developing vaccines for a short period and forecasting […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Helps Map Jupiter's Galilean Moon; Wes Patterson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Helps Map Jupiter’s Galilean Moon; Wes Patterson Comments

    Researchers from NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have created a geologic map of Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moons that were discovered by Galileo Galilei. The scientific team was led by Wes Patterson of APL and Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College in Massachusetts and used images sent from NASA’s Galileo and Voyager spacecraft […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Launch Small Satellites into Space; Ann Darrin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL, NASA Launch Small Satellites into Space; Ann Darrin Comments

    The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and NASA launched two small satellites called cubesats into space in November, The Baltimore Sun reported Jan. 10. Scott Dance writes the devices are intended for use in earth and space science research and earth radiation studies. “This has the potential of being disruptive,” Ann Darrin, managing executive of Johns […] More