LEIDOS, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
8/19
AI / ML Relevance
4/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$16,278,382
Award amount
—
Award date
N0001422C1004
PIID
Awardee
134
Total awards
$2,329,919,918
Total $ won
2.9/19
Avg AI score
Description
MARINE CORPS WARFIGHTING LABORATORY(MCWL) AUTONOMOUS LITTORAL CONNECTOR (ALC) EFFORT WILL INTEGRATE AUTONOMY ONTO CONNECTORS (VESSELS) TO DELIVER EQUIPMENT, FUEL, OR SUPPLIES FROM SHIP-TO-SHORE AND THROUGHOUT THE LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; IMPROVES AUTONO
Score Rationale
The award names 'autonomy' repeatedly but provides no indication of AI/ML techniques, sensing architecture, or decision logic—it reads as a systems integration effort to retrofit autonomous capability onto existing vessels, which is more mechanical/control engineering than ML. Problem is concrete (ship-to-shore logistics in littoral zones) but incomplete in the truncated description. Leidos is a $15B+ legacy defense prime (formerly Science Applications International Corporation), the opposite of AI-native.