THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$2,500,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8049
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
ZUMWALT COMBAT SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS (BZDM5)
Score Rationale
The award title 'ZUMWALT COMBAT SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS' contains no explicit AI/ML techniques or deliverables—it reads as a legacy systems analysis contract typical of FFRDC work. Problem framing is purely administrative (operational analysis of an existing destroyer platform) with no specific technical challenge articulated. JHU/APL is a federally funded research center, the antithesis of an AI-native startup, and represents institutional defense incumbency rather than modern procurement innovation.