LittleSis: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Leadership & Staff

Lori Magruder Director of the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin and science-team lead for NASA's ICESat-2 mission.

• Research position (early career)

Elsayed Talaat President and CEO of Universities Space Research Association since 2025; former NASA Heliophysics chief scientist and NOAA space-weather observations director.

• Supervisor, Earth and Planetary Atmospheres Section

William A LaPlante Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (2022-25); former president & CEO of Draper Laboratory; trustee of The Aerospace Corporation

• Head, Global Engagement Department; Executive Council [+1]

• Department Head for Global Engagement (past)

Stephen Winchell Trump appointed director of DARPA

• Program Manager

Jackson A. Artis mechanical and aerospace engineer graduated from Princeton '20

• Board Member

Eddie Tunstel Engineer and businessman

• Senior Roboticist (past)

Avril Haines The first woman to serve as CIA deputy director

• Senior Fellow*

Board Members

Cecil D Haney Retired U.S. Navy admiral and former commander of U.S. Strategic Command; chairman of the Military Child Education Coalition; trustee of The Aerospace Corporation

• Member, Board of Managers

Michael D Hankin Brown Advisory Incorporated

• chair of the board of managers

Philip Merrill Levine CEO of Capital-Gazette Communications; appointed to chairman of the Export-Import Bank by George W. Bush

• Board Member (past)

Donations

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Division of Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Funder

Parents

Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland

• Parent Org ('42→?)*

Memberships

SHREC SHREC is a research consortium created via the IUCRC Program at NSF and consisting of 33 partners collaborating on (a) basic and applied research and (b) workforce development at the University sites.

• Member