THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$382,180
Award amount
—
Award date
HT001123F0077
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 legacy epidemiological surveillance system (CDC/DoD joint effort since 2004) focused on data aggregation and alerting for disease outbreaks—fundamentally a rules-based public health monitoring platform with no AI/ML techniques mentioned or implied in the description. The award is explicitly for 'sustainment'—ongoing operations and maintenance of existing infrastructure, not AI development. APL LLC is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), the canonical legacy research contractor, disqualifying it from the 'AI-native' category entirely.