THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$2,524,307
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8206
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
NOVAL POWER DISTRO DEV FOR INTEGRATED MULITHREAT HEADBORNE SYSTEMS
Score Rationale
No AI/ML techniques or systems are mentioned in the award description; this is clearly a hardware/power distribution engineering contract ('power distro dev') with no algorithmic or learning component. The problem framing is minimal—'integrated multithreat headborne systems' is vague operational language without specifics on the underlying challenge. APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) owned by Johns Hopkins, making it a legacy institutional player rather than an AI-native startup, despite the contract vehicle structure.