THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
10/19
AI / ML Relevance
6/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$2,093,571
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002423F8852
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
USMC AI MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS (MDA)
Score Rationale
The award targets a concrete operational problem (maritime domain awareness for USMC) and AI/ML is clearly relevant to sensor fusion and threat detection in that domain, but the description provides no explicit AI/ML techniques, architecture, or success metrics—it reads as a capability statement rather than a technical specification, pulling the score to 6. Problem framing is reasonable (maritime awareness is a known USMC gap) but lacks specificity on contested environment constraints or integration success criteria. APL is an FFRDC (Johns Hopkins' federally funded research center), a legacy institutional player in defense R&D, not an AI-native startup, earning a 0 on awardee quality despite technical credibility.