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
$5,279,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8148
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
NATO SEASPARROW PROGRAM OPN
Score Rationale
NATO SEASPARROW is a legacy air-defense missile system dating to the 1970s; the description contains no mention of AI, ML, computer vision, autonomy, or any data science technique—this is a weapons platform sustainment or upgrade contract, not AI/ML work. APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) owned by Johns Hopkins, a classic legacy defense research institution, not an AI-native startup. Problem framing is minimal (program name only, no operational gap articulated).