THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
2/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$800,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8216
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
UNDERSEA WEAPON DEVELOPMENT
Score Rationale
The award description contains zero mention of AI, ML, computer vision, autonomous systems, or any machine learning technique; 'undersea weapon development' is purely a weapons engineering problem with no articulated AI/ML component. Problem framing is purely administrative—no operational challenge, end-user need, or success metric is stated. Johns Hopkins APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) operated by a major university, not an AI-native startup, making this a legacy institutional award rather than evidence of AI-native procurement.