THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
1/19
AI / ML Relevance
0/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$2,234,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002425F8112
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
TOMAHAWK WEAPON SYSTEM - AUR PROD RECERT FY 25
Score Rationale
This is a production recertification contract for the Tomahawk cruise missile system—a 1980s-era legacy weapon platform. The description contains zero reference to AI, ML, autonomy, or any computational intelligence work; 'AUR PROD RECERT' indicates routine certification/compliance activity. JHU APL, while technically competent, is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) owned by DoD, not an AI-native startup, and this award represents traditional defense sustainment work, not innovation procurement.