RAYTHEON COMPANY
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$533,311,855
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002415C5420
PIID
Awardee
839
Total awards
$95,251,240,444
Total $ won
1.5/19
Avg AI score
Description
EMD FOR ESSM BLOCK 2
Score Rationale
ESSM Block 2 is a guided missile upgrade contract with no explicit AI/ML technical content in the description — this is hardware/ordnance engineering, not machine learning. Raytheon is a legacy prime contractor (>$50B revenue, traditional defense systems integrator), not an AI-native firm. The problem framing is minimal and operational rather than analytical (air defense capability increment), with no articulated role for autonomous systems, sensor fusion algorithms, or data-driven decision support.