THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
2/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$3,500,000
Award amount
—
Award date
HY023325FE003
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
PROVIDE ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE TO IDENTIFY AND MATURE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOP OPERATIONAL PROTOTYPES FOR THE RAPID TRANSITION OF MATURING TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET WARFIGHTERS NEEDS. INCLUDES TESTING/VALIDATION OF TECHNOLOGY.
Score Rationale
The award description contains zero mention of AI, ML, or any specific technical domain—it is pure process language ('identify and mature appropriate technologies,' 'testing/validation') that could apply to any technology modernization effort. JHU APL is an FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center), a legacy research institution with institutional rather than AI-native structure, placing it in the lowest awardee category. The problem statement is generic warfighter-capability boilerplate with no articulated operational challenge, success metric, or end-user scenario.