KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
1/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$9,056,194
Award amount
—
Award date
N0017324C2018
PIID
Awardee
95
Total awards
$3,158,329,195
Total $ won
2.8/19
Avg AI score
Description
ENABLE AND SUPPORT THE U.S. NAVAL RESEARCH LAB (NRL) WITH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL ENSURE OPERATIONAL ACCESS TO CRITICAL SPACE CAPABILITIES AND SPACE FORCE ENHANCEMENT CAPABILITIES BY UTILIZATION OF THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT.
Score Rationale
KBR WYLE is a legacy defense integrator (merger of two large primes; 'WYLE' signals established contractor ecosystem), not an AI-native firm—this scores 0 on awardee quality. The description contains zero AI/ML terminology, naming no techniques, architectures, or algorithmic work; 'research and development' for 'space capabilities' is generic mission-support language typical of FFRDC-style contracts, scoring 1. Problem framing is vague—'operational access to critical space capabilities' lacks specificity about what operational problem, which end-users, or what success looks like, scoring 2. This is a classic legacy R&D support award, not evidence of AI-native defense procurement.