THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
2/19
AI / ML Relevance
0/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$7,400,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8191
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
SUBMARINE LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILE-NUCLEAR CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT (FY24)
Score Rationale
Award description contains zero mention of AI, ML, or any algorithmic techniques; it is purely a concept development contract for a weapons system (SLCM-N). The problem is framed only in military platform terms with no articulated operational gap that AI would address. Johns Hopkins APL is an FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center), the institutional opposite of an AI-native startup, disqualifying it from the awardee quality metric regardless of technical merit.