THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
5/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$15,064,817
Award amount
—
Award date
FA881922F1002
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
EVOLVED STRATEGIC SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND PROTECTED ANTI-JAM TACTICAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT
Score Rationale
This is a satellite communications and anti-jam engineering contract with no mention of AI/ML techniques, algorithms, or autonomous systems in the description—the deliverables are tactical satcom infrastructure and signal processing, which are classical EE/RF domains. Problem framing is reasonable (protected communications in contested environments is a clear operational need) but awardee is Johns Hopkins APL LLC, which is effectively a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) wholly owned by JHU and funded primarily by DoD—a legacy research institution, not an AI-native startup.