THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$4,998,650
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8025
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
EOD MODERNIZATION II
Score Rationale
The award title 'EOD MODERNIZATION II' (Explosive Ordnance Disposal modernization) contains no mention of AI, ML, or any specific technical approach — it reads as legacy systems modernization language. The description provides no articulation of what problem is being solved, what capability gap exists, or what success looks like beyond the word 'modernization.' APL is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) subsidiary of Johns Hopkins, not an AI-native startup; FFDCs are institutional research arms, not evidence of competitive AI procurement adoption.