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
$912,222
Award amount
—
Award date
HT001124F0059
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 an epidemiological surveillance platform focused on community health monitoring — a public health IT system with no mention of AI/ML techniques, algorithms, or autonomous decision-making; the award is explicitly for 'sustainment' (maintenance and support), not AI development. The problem framing is administrative (sustaining an existing system) rather than operationally specific. Johns Hopkins APL is an FFRDC (federally funded research center), a large institutional actor typical of legacy defense IT contracts, not an AI-native startup.