THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$3,060,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002425F8039
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
VIPR UK PHASE B
Score Rationale
The award description 'VIPR UK PHASE B' contains zero explicit mention of AI, ML techniques, or algorithmic work — it reads as a phase gate continuation of an undefined program with no disclosed problem statement or technical approach. Johns Hopkins APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC), a legacy institutional actor in defense R&D, not an AI-native company. Without visibility into what VIPR actually does, this appears to be incremental government research funding rather than evidence of AI-forward procurement.