THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
1/19
AI / ML Relevance
0/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$1,217,460
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8093
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
TOMAHAWK WEAPON SYSTEM - AUR PRODUCTION AND RECERT
Score Rationale
This is a production and recertification contract for the Tomahawk cruise missile—a 1980s-era weapons platform. The description contains zero AI/ML technical language and the work is clearly manufacturing oversight and compliance (AUR = audit record, recert = recertification). APL is an FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center), the institutional opposite of an AI-native startup, and this award is legacy defense sustainment, not innovation procurement.