OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
16/19
AI / ML Relevance
8/9
Problem Framing
5/5
Awardee Quality
3/5
Award
$1,759,951
Award amount
—
Award date
FA865124CB014
PIID
Awardee
13
Total awards
$27,235,379
Total $ won
9.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION (ATR) SEEKER FOR MULTI-TARGET GROUPING, DISCRIMINATION & NEUTRALIZATION (ARMGDN) INTERCEPTOR I
Score Rationale
ATR (Automatic Target Recognition) is explicitly an AI/ML domain—computer vision and pattern recognition at its core—and the seeker is the primary deliverable, not ancillary. The problem is exceptionally well-articulated: multi-target discrimination and neutralization in an interceptor context is a concrete operational challenge with clear success criteria (correct targeting). Awardee name 'OPTO-KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS INC' suggests optics/sensing expertise but uses legacy-pattern language ('SYSTEMS INC'); insufficient signal to classify as AI-native startup, though the specificity of the technical work (seeker design) suggests deeper capability than a pure integrator.