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
$1,139,225
Award amount
—
Award date
HQ085426FE007
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM ALL TASKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH TASK PLAN DATED 01 DECEMBER 2025 ENTITLED ABS BMD 6.1 SEA-BASED TERMINAL (SBT) INCREMENT 3 TASK PLAN (ATTACHMENT 1, SECTION J)
Score Rationale
The award description contains zero mention of AI, ML, algorithms, autonomy, or data science — it is a pure task-order reference to a classified or restricted task plan not provided in the public description, making genuine AI content assessment impossible. APL is an FFRDC (federally funded research center operated by Johns Hopkins), placing it in the legacy defense research category regardless of actual work content. The framing is purely administrative (perform tasks per attachment) with no articulation of an operational problem, capability gap, or success metric — the '$1.1M sea-based terminal increment' designation suggests incremental work on an existing program rather than novel problem-solving.