LEIDOS, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
6/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$15,537,745
Award amount
—
Award date
HR001124C0438
PIID
Awardee
134
Total awards
$2,329,919,918
Total $ won
2.9/19
Avg AI score
Description
DARPA RESEARCH PROJECT TO DEVELOP A HYBRID QUANTUM-CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURE TO ENABLE QUANTUM ENHANCEMENTS TO SECURITY AND COVERTNESS ON TODAY'S CLASSICAL NETWORKS.
Score Rationale
Quantum communication networks are a cryptography and physics problem, not an AI/ML problem—no machine learning techniques (vision, NLP, anomaly detection, reinforcement learning) are mentioned or implied as core deliverables. Problem framing is reasonable (security/covertness enhancement via quantum hybrid architecture) but the awardee is Leidos, a $15B+ legacy defense prime contractor that epitomizes the established integrator model, not an AI-native firm.