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
$7,687,350
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8138
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
NAVY DIRECTED ENERGY ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
Score Rationale
The award description 'Navy Directed Energy Advanced Technology' contains no mention of AI, ML, or any algorithmic work — it frames as a physics/engineering problem (directed energy weapons), not a computational one. Problem articulation is purely administrative with no specificity about operational context, end-users, or success criteria. JHU APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), the canonical legacy-adjacent institution in defense R&D, despite modern work portfolio; this signals institutional inertia rather than AI-native procurement.