RAYTHEON COMPANY
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
3/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$275,963,190
Award amount
—
Award date
N0001916C0052
PIID
Awardee
839
Total awards
$95,251,240,444
Total $ won
1.5/19
Avg AI score
Description
JOINT PRECISION APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEM
Score Rationale
JPALS is a precision navigation and landing system for aircraft — a classical aerospace guidance/control problem with no mention of AI/ML techniques, autonomous decision-making, or learning algorithms in the title or description. Problem framing is reasonable (landing accuracy in contested environments) but articulated as a hardware/sensor integration challenge, not an AI problem. Raytheon Company is a large legacy prime contractor (now RTX), the canonical example of defense integrators, disqualifying any startup/AI-native signal.