GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$57,843,431
Award amount
—
Award date
FA872321F9009
PIID
Awardee
130
Total awards
$1,838,723,793
Total $ won
4.7/19
Avg AI score
Description
BMEWS PAVE PAWS (BPP) SPARC AND REX
Score Rationale
BMEWS PAVE PAWS SPARC and REX are legacy radar modernization programs with no explicit AI/ML technical deliverables mentioned — the acronyms reference 1960s-era ballistic missile early warning systems and phased array radar platforms. Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp is a university FFRDC (federally funded research and development center), which is institutional infrastructure rather than an AI-native company. The description provides no operational problem statement, success criteria, or evidence of genuine ML work; this appears to be radar sustainment and signal processing infrastructure maintenance rather than AI adoption.