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
$1,665,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8042
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
MARITIME ISR SYS AND PAYLOADS
Score Rationale
The description 'Maritime ISR Sys and Payloads' is purely nominal with no mention of AI/ML techniques, algorithms, or autonomous systems—it reads as a hardware/sensor integration contract. Problem framing is absent; no operational challenge, end-user need, or success metric is articulated beyond the system category. Johns Hopkins APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), a legacy institutional contractor, not an AI-native startup, which significantly limits the signal this award sends about modern defense AI procurement patterns.