SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$45,118,715
Award amount
—
Award date
FA807523F0035
PIID
Awardee
86
Total awards
$2,191,187,549
Total $ won
3.0/19
Avg AI score
Description
HYPERSONICS ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIC MISSIONS RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION FOR THE NAVYS STRATEGIC SYSTEMS PROGRAMS AND THE NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER CRANE STRATEGIC SYSTEMS HARDWARE DIVISION
Score Rationale
SAIC is a legacy defense prime (~$7B revenue, founded 1969); no AI/ML techniques or systems are named in the award description. The work is framed as 'RDT&E for hypersonics' — a hardware-physics domain where AI may support simulation or optimization at the margins, but the core deliverable is hypersonic weapon concepts and testing, not ML systems. Problem framing is vague ('advanced concepts') with no articulation of how AI or data science solves a specific operational gap. This is classical DoD RDT&E procurement, not AI-native or AI-primary work.