THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$7,547,027
Award amount
—
Award date
HQ003425FE301
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
CDAO SUPPORT TO PROVIDE ANALYSIS, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SUPPORT, TEST AND EVALUATION, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND EXECUTION FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE, INTELLIGENCE, AND SECURITY ENVIRONMENTS.
Score Rationale
The award description contains zero explicit AI/ML techniques, named models, or autonomous systems work—it reads as generic R&D services language ('analysis, research and development, systems engineering support'). Johns Hopkins APL, while technically competent, is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) owned by JHU, not an AI-native company; FFRDCs are explicitly excluded by the scoring rubric as legacy institutional players. The problem statement is purely administrative framing (CDAO support) with no articulated operational challenge, end-user need, or success criteria.