THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$3,846,170
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002425F8043
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
CBRNE SUITE RDTE FY25-FY28
Score Rationale
The award title 'CBRNE SUITE RDTE' is purely administrative/acronymic with no mention of AI, ML, or any specific technical approach—it reads as a legacy R&D envelope contract rather than an AI-native procurement. APL is a federally-funded research center (FFRDC), not an AI startup or modern tech company, and the description provides no articulation of operational problems, success metrics, or technical scope beyond a bureaucratic label. This appears to be a blanket funding mechanism for CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive) research rather than a targeted AI/ML contract.