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
$690,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002424F8242
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
IMPROVING OPERATIONAL VH-92A
Score Rationale
No AI/ML techniques, methods, or systems are mentioned anywhere in the award description; the scope is aircraft operational improvement, which is hardware/mechanical engineering work. Problem framing is vague—'improving operational VH-92A' names a platform but not a specific operational problem or success criterion. Johns Hopkins APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) and large defense research institution, not an AI-native company, placing it at the bottom tier for startup opportunity signal.