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
$1,350,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8089
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
NAVY DIRECTED ENERGY KILL CHAIN ADV TECH
Score Rationale
The description 'Navy Directed Energy Kill Chain Adv Tech' contains no mention of AI, ML, computer vision, autonomy, or any machine learning technique — it reads as a physics/engineering contract for directed energy weapons systems. JHU APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), placing it in the legacy defense establishment category regardless of technical merit. Problem framing is purely operational jargon ('kill chain') without articulation of the specific algorithmic or data challenge being solved.