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
$550,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8198
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
UNDERSEA WEAPON DEVELOPMENT
Score Rationale
Award description contains zero explicit mention of AI, ML, or any computational technique — 'undersea weapon development' is purely hardware/platform language with no algorithmic or autonomous component articulated. Johns Hopkins APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), which disqualifies it from scoring as AI-native; it is a legacy defense research organization despite its university affiliation. The problem statement is vague boilerplate procurement language with no operational context, end-user, or success criteria.