GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP

The award title explicitly references 'tactical radar system' and 'reference architecture'—no AI/ML techniques are named, and the deliverable appears to be a system design or architectural blueprint rather than an AI capability. Problem framing is purely administrative: no operational end-user need, tactical scenario, or performance challenge is articulated beyond the generic hardware/systems domain. Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp is an FFRDC-adjacent academic research entity (not a startup), scoring it as legacy institutional rather than AI-native; the contract structure and language signal traditional defense systems engineering rather than modern ML-driven procurement.