THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
Department of Defense · Contract
AI-Readiness Score
4/19
AI / ML Relevance
2/9
Problem Framing
2/5
Awardee Quality
0/5
Award
$3,964,640
Award amount
—
Award date
N6600123C4508
PIID
Awardee
24
Total awards
$1,561,017,815
Total $ won
3.0/19
Avg AI score
Description
C2PEP: CLOUD COMPUTING FOR PARATOPE-EPITOPE PREDICTION
Score Rationale
Despite the technical title invoking 'paratope-epitope prediction' (a bioinformatics/immunology concept), the award framing centers on 'cloud computing' infrastructure rather than novel ML model development or deployment—suggesting this is cloud migration/IT modernization work. Draper Lab is a legacy FFRDC (MIT-affiliated, established 1942) that primarily delivers systems engineering and integration services, not an AI-native startup. The problem statement lacks operational context: no end-user warfighter capability, no success metrics, no clear DoD mission tie-in beyond a generic computational biology capability.