THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC

This is a contract for 'Advanced Standard Missile Systems'—a weapons platform modernization effort with no mention of AI, ML, autonomous systems, computer vision, sensor fusion algorithms, or any ML technique. The problem is framed in purely hardware/platform terms ('missile systems') with no articulated operational challenge that AI would address. JHU APL is a legacy FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center) operating under Johns Hopkins University, not an AI-native company; while technically capable, it is structurally a government-owned research entity. This award shows zero evidence of AI-native defense procurement.