SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
5/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
3/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$7,698,312
Award amount
—
Award date
FA880924FB005
PIID
Awardee
86
Total awards
$2,191,187,549
Total $ won
3.0/19
Avg AI score
Description
PROVIDES DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINMENT OF THE EC2-S GROUND SYSTEM LOCATED AT SSFB, AND TWO OPERATIONAL QZSS-HP PAYLOADS WILL DEMONSTRATE SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS (SDA) OBSERVATIONS OF THE GEO BELT WHILE HOSTED ON TWO SEPARATE JAPANESE SPACE CRAFT.
Score Rationale
SAIC is a large legacy defense prime (~$8B revenue), disqualifying it from the 'AI-native' category. The award focuses on ground system development and payload sustainment for space domain awareness—fundamentally a systems integration and infrastructure contract with no explicit AI/ML technique mentioned (no computer vision, anomaly detection, sensor fusion algorithms named). SDA is a legitimate defense problem, but this description reads as classical satellite operations and ground infrastructure work, not an AI system procurement.