THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$9,994,616
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8011
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
VIRGINIA CLASS SUBMARINE CYBER
Score Rationale
Award title 'Virginia Class Submarine Cyber' contains zero AI/ML terminology and suggests cybersecurity hardening or IT modernization of legacy platforms—classic defense integration work, not AI systems development. Problem framing is purely administrative: no operational scenario, end-user capability need, or success metric is articulated. Awardee is Johns Hopkins APL, a large federally funded research center (FFRDC) and traditional defense contractor, not an AI-native startup; this is a hallmark legacy prime contract award.