THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
1/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
0/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$17,317,693
Award amount
—
Award date
HQ014719F0036
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
ENGINEERING AND TECH SUPPORT RDTE FUNDS
Score Rationale
This is a generic RDTE support contract with zero specificity: the description contains only boilerplate funding category language ('ENGINEERING AND TECH SUPPORT RDTE FUNDS') and names no AI/ML techniques, algorithms, or deliverables whatsoever. The awardee is Johns Hopkins APL, a major FFRDC (federally funded research center), not an AI-native startup. No operational problem, end-user need, or success criteria are articulated—this appears to be a blanket engineering services or infrastructure renewal contract, not evidence of AI-native defense procurement.