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
$350,000
Award amount
—
Award date
N0002425F8138
PIID
Awardee
769
Total awards
$4,478,210,870
Total $ won
2.6/19
Avg AI score
Description
UNDERSEA WEAPON DEVELOPMENT (SSF58)
Score Rationale
The award description contains zero explicit mention of AI, ML, machine learning, neural networks, computer vision, or autonomous systems—only a contract category code (SSF58) for undersea weapon development. Problem framing is minimal: 'undersea weapon development' names a domain but not a specific operational problem, capability gap, or success metric. JHU APL is a federally funded research center (FFRDC) owned by Johns Hopkins and contracted by DoD for 70+ years of traditional systems engineering and physics research—a legacy research institution, not an AI-native startup.