THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
3/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$1,000,000
Award amount
—
Award date
FA881926FB003
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTECTED TACTICAL MILITARY SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
Score Rationale
No AI/ML techniques, models, or systems are mentioned in the award description—this is purely systems engineering and satellite communications infrastructure work, making it a legacy defense/engineering contract despite buzzword-free clarity. Problem is identifiable (tactical MILSATCOM resilience) but generic and administrative in framing. JHU APL is an FFRDC (federally funded research center), which disqualifies it from 'AI-native' scoring regardless of technical merit.