THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
2/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$4,971,498
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8102
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
RDT&E FOR PEO SOLDIER PDM SPE III
Score Rationale
Description contains zero AI/ML language or technique specificity — 'RDT&E for PEO SOLDIER PDM SPE III' is pure acronym bureaucracy with no indication of algorithmic, learning, or autonomous systems work. Johns Hopkins APL is an FFRDC (federally funded research center), a legacy institutional vehicle for DoD research rather than an AI-native startup, and the opaque acronym stack ('PEO SOLDIER PDM SPE III') suggests either highly classified work or routine soldier equipment modernization with no articulated problem statement. This reads as a baseline institutional R&D replenishment award, not evidence of AI-native defense procurement.