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
$1,000,000
Award amount
—
Award date
HY023326FE001
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 technical domain—it is pure procurement boilerplate ('engineering and scientific expertise,' 'maturing technologies,' 'testing/validation'). No concrete problem is articulated beyond the generic 'warfighters needs.' JHU/APL is an FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center), a legacy institutional player, not an AI-native company; this appears to be a blanket technology maturation contract rather than an AI-specific procurement.