GENERAL DYNAMICS MISSION SYSTEMS, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
3/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
1/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$548,076
Award amount
—
Award date
N0017325C2441
PIID
Awardee
87
Total awards
$3,325,715,609
Total $ won
2.0/19
Avg AI score
Description
BLACK PEARL AUV
Score Rationale
General Dynamics Mission Systems is a large legacy defense prime (subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp), scoring 0 on awardee quality. The award description 'BLACK PEARL AUV' names a platform (autonomous underwater vehicle) but contains zero mention of AI/ML techniques, algorithms, or autonomous decision-making; AUVs are mechanical systems and this reads as a hardware/platform award rather than AI-native work (score: 2). Problem framing is minimal—no operational context, end-user need, or success metric is articulated beyond the platform name itself (score: 1). This appears to be traditional defense platform procurement, not evidence of AI-native adoption.