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
$2,184,852
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8091
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
BIOMETRIC MATERIALS FOR NEXT GENERATION, SPECTRALLY TAILORED NETS (BIOSPECNET)
Score Rationale
No AI/ML techniques or systems are mentioned in the award title or description; 'BIOSPECNET' appears to be materials science research (biometric materials, spectral tailoring) with no algorithmic component evident. Problem framing is purely administrative—no operational end-user need, success criteria, or warfighter challenge articulated beyond the acronym. JHU APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), a large institutional contractor, not an AI-native startup, making this structurally a legacy research procurement rather than evidence of AI-native defense adoption.