L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$3,432,929
Award amount
—
Award date
N0001424C1147
PIID
Awardee
62
Total awards
$2,002,107,482
Total $ won
1.7/19
Avg AI score
Description
THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS MULTI-YEAR PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE THE VALIDITY OF TRANSITIONING FCM99 WAVEFORM TECHNOLOGY INTO A SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO (SDR) FABRIC. THIS IS WITH THE INTENT OF MATURING THE TECHNOLOGY TOWARDS A FIELD OPERATIONS.
Score Rationale
L3 Technologies is a large legacy defense prime (score: 0), making this structurally a traditional systems integration contract despite the $3.4M award size. The technical objective—evaluating waveform technology transition into software-defined radio—is a radio/communications engineering problem with no mention of AI/ML techniques, datasets, or algorithmic work; 'software defined' refers to reprogrammable RF systems, not machine learning (score: 1). Problem framing is vague procedural language ('evaluate validity,' 'maturing towards field operations') without articulating the operational problem being solved or success criteria (score: 2).