THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$367,757,486
Award amount
—
Award date
N0003017C0008
PIID
Awardee
24
Total awards
$1,561,017,815
Total $ won
3.0/19
Avg AI score
Description
IGF::CT::IGF TRIDENT MK 6 GUIDANCE SYSTEM PEUS
Score Rationale
This is a guidance system contract for a weapons platform (TRIDENT), with no explicit mention of AI/ML techniques, autonomous decision-making, or learning systems — the language ('guidance system', 'PEUS') is purely classical control/navigation engineering. The problem is framed only as a platform upgrade with no articulated operational gap or success metric beyond procurement language. Draper Lab is an FFRDC (federally funded research center), the prototypical legacy defense research institution, not an AI-native startup.