THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
6/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$1,815,852
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8167
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
MCWL INTEGRATED EXPLOSIVE HAZARD DETECTION/DEFEAT (IEHD2) PROGRAM
Score Rationale
The award title frames a concrete operational problem (explosive hazard detection/defeat in MCWL context), but the description contains zero mention of AI, ML, or specific technical approaches — suggesting this is likely a systems integration or engineering contract rather than an AI-native deliverable. Johns Hopkins APL is a major federally funded research center (FFRDC), which is a legacy institutional awardee category, not an AI-native startup, and the contract scale ($1.8M) and framing are consistent with traditional defense engineering work rather than ML innovation.