GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
5/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
2/5
Award
$2,440,625
Award amount
—
Award date
HR001121C0160
PIID
Awardee
130
Total awards
$1,838,723,793
Total $ won
4.7/19
Avg AI score
Description
THE QUANTUM APERTURES PROGRAM AIMS TO DEMONSTRATE THE UTILITY OF RYDBERG SENSORS AS PART OF A PORTABLE RF RECEIVER SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF DEFENSE APPLICATIONS.
Score Rationale
This is a physics/hardware contract focused on Rydberg atom sensors for RF detection—no AI/ML techniques, models, or autonomous systems are named or implied as core deliverables. Problem framing is vague ('defense applications' without operational context or success metrics beyond 'demonstrate utility'). Awardee is Georgia Tech's applied research arm, a university entity—not an AI-native startup, though also not a legacy prime contractor.