THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$391,000
Award amount
—
Award date
HT001122F0115
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
ESSENTIAL SERVICES FOR SUSTAINMENT OF THE DOD IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR THE EARLY NOTIFICATION OF COMMUNITY-BASED EPIDEMICS (ESSENCE).
Score Rationale
ESSENCE is a public health surveillance platform focused on epidemiological data integration and alerting — no AI/ML techniques are named or implied as core deliverables; the award funds 'sustainment' and 'essential services,' which signals maintenance contracting rather than algorithm development. Johns Hopkins APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), not an AI-native company, and the framing is administrative (system sustainment) rather than problem-driven (no operational military problem articulated beyond generic 'community-based' health monitoring).