SPECTRAL ENERGIES LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
7/19
AI / ML Relevance
0/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
3/5
Award
$1,799,613
Award amount
—
Award date
FA864924P0554
PIID
Awardee
28
Total awards
$43,594,882
Total $ won
7.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE MULTI-KERNEL PLASMA IGNITOR FOR HYPERSONIC SCRAMJETS
Score Rationale
This award funds physics-based engineering on plasma ignition systems for hypersonic propulsion—no AI/ML techniques, deliverables, or even supporting language present. Problem framing is solid (specific technical challenge: reliable multi-kernel plasma ignition for scramjets), but awardee 'Spectral Energies LLC' reads as a specialized physics/materials firm rather than AI-native (the LLC suffix is ambiguous), with no signal of modern AI methodology. This is a hard engineering contract with zero AI relevance.