THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$2,618,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8140
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
MARITIME SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS OPERATIONS
Score Rationale
The award title 'Maritime Surveillance Systems Operations' contains zero AI/ML terminology and the description suggests operations and maintenance of existing systems rather than development of AI models or algorithms. JHU APL is an FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center) operated by Johns Hopkins University—a legacy research institution, not an AI-native startup. Problem framing is vague (no specific operational gap, end-user need, or success metric articulated beyond generic 'maritime surveillance').