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
$8,345,677
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8284
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
SM-6 BLK IB DEVELOPMENT
Score Rationale
SM-6 BLK IB is a missile development and integration contract with no mention of AI/ML techniques, autonomous systems, or machine learning in the description — this is a kinetic weapons platform modernization effort. The problem framing is purely programmatic (missile block upgrade) with no articulated operational challenge requiring AI. Johns Hopkins APL is an FFRDC/federally-funded research center, a legacy institutional player in defense R&D, not an AI-native company.