LEIDOS, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
6/19
AI / ML Relevance
3/9
Problem Framing
3/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$1,273,553
Award amount
—
Award date
N0001425C1131
PIID
Awardee
134
Total awards
$2,329,919,918
Total $ won
2.9/19
Avg AI score
Description
PIXELHAWK WILL USE THE COMMUNICATION, SENSORS, AND PROCESSING POWER OF AN ANDROID CELLPHONE TO INSTRUMENT AND CONTROL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) AS THEY EXECUTE AUTONOMOUS NAVAL MISSIONS.
Score Rationale
The award centers on repurposing Android phones for UAS control and instrumentation—primarily a hardware/systems integration play, not an AI/ML development contract. No AI techniques are named (no computer vision, autonomous planning algorithms, sensor fusion, or ML models mentioned), and the core deliverable appears to be engineering integration work. Leidos is a major legacy defense prime ($15B+ revenue, 30K+ employees), not an AI-native firm, which further suggests this is traditional defense contracting repackaged. Problem framing is generic ('autonomous naval missions') with no operational specificity around the actual mission challenge being solved.