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
$3,935,349
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8233
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
NIWC MARINE ENGINEERING AND TEST PROJECT
Score Rationale
Award description contains zero mention of AI, ML, machine learning, algorithms, or any related techniques — 'NIWC MARINE ENGINEERING AND TEST PROJECT' is pure infrastructure language. Problem framing is absent; only an organizational unit (NIWC) and activity type (engineering, test) are named with no operational objective or success criteria articulated. Awardee is Johns Hopkins APL, a federally funded research center (FFRDC) — a large institutional actor, not an AI-native startup, making this a legacy research infrastructure award rather than AI-native defense procurement.