THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$8,492,061
Award amount
—
Award date
FA865021F1009
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
6TH GENERATION MULTI-FUNCTION ARRAY CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT, ANALYSIS, DESIGN, AND DISCOVERY (6G-MACDADDY)
Score Rationale
JHU APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), not an AI-native company, scoring zero on awardee quality. The award title 'Multi-Function Array Capability Development' suggests RF/phased array hardware engineering rather than machine learning; no AI/ML techniques are named in the description, and the scope appears to be signal processing platform development (scoring 2 on AI/ML relevance). The problem statement is generic ('6th generation') without operational context, end-user articulation, or success criteria (scoring 2 on problem framing).