Sannibale, F. Baptiste, K.M. Cork, C.W. De Santis, S. Dickinson, M.R. Doolittle, L.R. Doyle, J.A. Feng, J. Filippetto, D. Harris, G.L. Huang, G. Huang, R. Johnson, M.J. Jones, M.S. Kramasz, T.D. Kwiatkowski, S. Leitner, D. Lellinger, R.E. Mitchell, C.E. Moroz, V. Norum, W.E. Padmore, H.A. Portmann, G.J. Qian, H.J. Staples, J.W. Syversrud, D. L. Vinco, M. Virostek, S.P. Wells, R.P. Zolotorev, M.S. MOP024 gun cathode linac cavity electron 2015 2015-12 The Advanced Photo-injector EXperiment (APEX) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is dedicated to the demonstration of the capability of an electron injector based on the VHF-gun, the new concept RF gun developed at LBNL, of delivering the beam quality required by MHz-class repetition rate X-Ray free electron lasers. Project status, plans, and recent results are presented.