CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
12/19
AI / ML Relevance
7/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
3/5
Award
$11,138,087
Award amount
—
Award date
HR001124C0421
PIID
Awardee
29
Total awards
$72,287,627
Total $ won
11.1/19
Avg AI score
Description
DARPA RESEARCH PROJECT
Score Rationale
Charles River Analytics is a known AI/cognitive systems firm with decades of R&D focus on machine reasoning, decision support, and knowledge representation — genuine AI-native pedigree — but the award description is nearly empty: 'DARPA RESEARCH PROJECT' reveals no technical approach, deliverable specificity, or problem statement. The $11M+ amount and DARPA pathway suggest meaningful AI work, elevating ML relevance to 7, but the complete absence of problem framing (no operational context, end-user, or success metric named) and awardee ambiguity (not a modern startup name, but not a legacy integrator either) prevent higher scores.