THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC

This is a general DARPA support services contract with no AI/ML specificity whatsoever—the description is purely administrative boilerplate ('research program support services') with no mention of any technique, system, or deliverable. JHU APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), not an AI-native startup, and this award appears to be operational/administrative support rather than a technology development contract. The complete absence of problem framing, technical scope, or AI content makes this retrospective evidence of legacy procurement inertia, not AI-native defense adoption.