THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
1/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
0/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$46,994,259
Award amount
—
Award date
HR001125F0451
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
DARPA RESEARCH PROGRAM SUPPORT SERVICES
Score Rationale
This is a generic support services contract for DARPA with no AI/ML specificity in the title or description — 'research program support services' is administrative/overhead language, not a concrete deliverable. The awardee is Johns Hopkins APL, a large federally funded research center (FFRDC), not an AI-native company. The award description contains zero problem articulation, no mention of AI techniques, and no indication this funds a specific technology development; it reads as a blanket support contract rather than evidence of AI-native procurement.