Defining Innovations

APL’s 75th anniversary provides a great opportunity to reflect on the history and recognize the remarkable impact it had on the world. The people who make up their past and their present have been responsible for thousands of critical contributions to their nation’s most critical challenges, and the...

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Published in:Johns Hopkins APL technical digest 2018-03, Vol.34 (2), p.107
Main Author: Semmel, Ralph D
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:APL’s 75th anniversary provides a great opportunity to reflect on the history and recognize the remarkable impact it had on the world. The people who make up their past and their present have been responsible for thousands of critical contributions to their nation’s most critical challenges, and these include a smaller number of truly defining innovations -- game-changing developments that profoundly advanced science, engineering, and national security capabilities. This article celebrates these innovations, the culture that has enabled them, and the possibilities that lie ahead of them. Like many celebrated technology organizations, their story starts in a garage, in their case a used car garage in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1942. They were focused on a critical challenge that had defied solution: how to defend their forces more effectively against devastating enemy aircraft.
ISSN:0270-5214
1930-0530