LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
8/19
AI / ML Relevance
6/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$1,419,838
Award amount
—
Award date
HR001126CE029
PIID
Awardee
427
Total awards
$99,970,968,101
Total $ won
1.9/19
Avg AI score
Description
SECURING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BATTLEFIELD EFFECTIVE ROBUSTNESS (SABER)
Score Rationale
The program title (SABER) invokes AI robustness and security—legitimate ML concerns—but the award description provides zero technical detail about which AI/ML techniques are in scope, what models are being hardened, or what 'battlefield effective robustness' operationally means; this reads as a framing exercise rather than a concrete technical statement. Lockheed Martin is a legacy prime ($65B+ revenue), not an AI-native company, which typically correlates with systems-integration-heavy execution and slower ML iteration cycles. The $1.4M award size for a named program is atypically small for Lockheed, suggesting this may be a Phase I or exploratory contract rather than production AI work.