THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
5/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$1,254,178
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8080
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
ASSESSMENT OF HYPERSONIC TRANSITION AND TURBULENT HEATING (HTT) 2.0
Score Rationale
The award is fundamentally a physics/aerodynamics modeling contract focused on hypersonic heating analysis—no AI/ML techniques are mentioned or implied in the title or description. Problem framing is reasonable (hypersonic vehicle thermal assessment is a real DoD challenge), but awardee is Johns Hopkins APL, a federally funded research center that operates as a legacy institutional performer, not an AI-native entity. This is traditional aerospace engineering procurement, not an AI adoption signal.