The Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit center for engineering, research and development. APL is a division of one of the world's premier research universities, Johns Hopkins. Our 360-acre campus, 20 miles north of Washington, DC, is home to 4,050 men and women. We hire the best and the brightest from top colleges, 68% of whom are engineers and scientists. We work on more than 400 programs that protect our nation and advance new horizons in research and space science, at an annual funding level of about $680M.
