THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
9/19
AI / ML Relevance
6/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
1/5
Award
$1,803,175
Award amount
—
Award date
FA228025F0003
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
TASK ORDER FOR CONDUCTIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY-APPLIED PHYSICS LAB AUTONOMY PRIME ENVIRONMENT FOR EXPERIMENTATION FOLLOW-ON
Score Rationale
The word 'autonomy' suggests genuine AI/ML relevance (autonomous systems development), but the description is vague on specific techniques or deliverables—it reads as a follow-on to an existing research environment rather than a bounded AI/ML product. Problem framing is minimal: no operational context, end-user, or success criteria are articulated beyond generic R&D language ('conducive research'). APL LLC, despite being part of Johns Hopkins, operates as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)—a legacy institutional actor with substantial government overhead, not an AI-native startup.