THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC

SURTASS JAOS is a legacy sonobuoy and acoustic sensor system with no AI/ML techniques named or implied in the description—the acronyms indicate foreign military sales (FMS) of established surveillance hardware, not machine learning work. Problem framing is purely administrative (FMS program designation) with no operational problem articulated. APL is an FFRDC, a large institutional contractor, not an AI-native company; the award appears to be maintenance/production of existing systems rather than AI development.