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
$3,124,946
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8172
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
EXPEDITIONARY SURTASS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Score Rationale
SURTASS (Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System) is a legacy acoustic sensor platform dating to the 1980s; the word 'production' and 'systems' framing indicate manufacturing/fielding of existing hardware, not AI development. Problem statement is purely operational/platform-level with no articulation of algorithmic or learning challenges. JHU APL is a federally-funded research center (FFRDC), which disqualifies it from the 'AI-native startup' category entirely regardless of contract quality.