THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
2/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$2,172,000
Award amount
—
Award date
HQ085426FE012
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 THE TASK PLAN DATED 10 SEPTEMBER 2025 ENTITLED"AEGIS-BASED DEFENSE (MDA/AB) MISSILE SYSTEMS SUSTAINMENT OF CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES" ATTACHMENT 1, SECTION J.
Score Rationale
The award description contains zero mention of AI, ML, or any computational techniques—it references only 'sustainment of critical technologies' for an AEGIS missile system, which is legacy hardware/integration work. JHU/APL, despite its technical sophistication, is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by a university, not an AI-native startup, and this contract appears to be routine sustainment engineering with no problem statement articulated beyond a task plan reference.