Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO) Request for Information (RFI)
DEPT OF DEFENSE
Place of performance: Chantilly, VA
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- Posted
- Aug 18, 2026
- Closes
- No deadline published by the funder
At a glance
This is a government contract opportunity posted by DEPT OF DEFENSE in the research and development in the physical category. Work is performed in Chantilly, VA.
Classification and identifiers
- Industry (NAICS)
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)
- Solicitation number
- BIAO-RFI-2026
- Contracting office
- DIRECTOR SCO
Who can apply
About this opportunity
UPDATE!!!! Questions and Answers included on 8/17/26. See Attachment "BIAO RFI Q_A Final_SAM Posting" The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) is pursuing Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO), a rapid prototyping effort to deliver a layered, modular capability to detect adversary cognitive domain operations, generate and deliver counter-narrative responses with accurate information, model and validate effectiveness, and deploy and measure outcomes in operationally relevant settings. SCO intends to acquire capability on a technologycomponent basis and to integrate those components into a single, scalable operating environment — referred to notionally as the Layered Information Nexus (LIN), which will serve as the common operational picture and workbench — for use across a broad oper...