GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
1/5
Award
$2,720,972
Award amount
—
Award date
FA855524F0006
PIID
Awardee
130
Total awards
$1,838,723,793
Total $ won
4.7/19
Avg AI score
Description
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR IBS
Score Rationale
The description provides only an acronym ('IBS') with zero elaboration on technical approach, deliverables, or AI/ML involvement — this reads as a blanket R&D services contract with no concrete AI/ML naming or scope. 'Research, development, and engineering services' is classic boilerplate language that obscures rather than clarifies the actual problem being solved. Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp is an FFRDC-adjacent entity (a university research center), which systematically scores lower on the AI-native scale regardless of capability, signaling legacy procurement patterns rather than startup-native innovation.