L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
6/19
AI / ML Relevance
3/9
Problem Framing
3/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$3,350,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0001425C1505
PIID
Awardee
62
Total awards
$2,002,107,482
Total $ won
1.7/19
Avg AI score
Description
ROBUST ENVIRONMENT NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY FOR ENHANCED RECOVERY TO NAVY SHIPS (RETERNS)
Score Rationale
L3 Technologies is a legacy defense prime (large-cap integrator), not an AI-native firm, scoring 0 on awardee quality. The award title names a specific operational problem (autonomous navigation for ship recovery in contested environments), earning a 3 on problem framing, but the description provides no concrete AI/ML techniques, algorithms, or ML system architecture—only a program acronym. The focus appears to be navigation systems and recovery ops rather than AI as the core deliverable, placing it at 3 on AI/ML relevance: nominally relevant but lacking evidence of genuine ML engineering at scale.