THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC

No AI/ML techniques are named or implied in the description; 'Electronic Warfare Backfit Engineering' is a legacy systems integration and retrofit task with no algorithmic or learning component evident. The problem is stated only as an operational category (EW backfit) without articulation of a specific capability gap or success metric. APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) owned by Johns Hopkins — a canonical large defense institution, not an AI-native startup, making this a traditional prime contractor award with minimal AI relevance despite the DoD's stated modernization priorities.