Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Basic Information Awareness Operations Biao Request for Information Rfi
Deadline: 21 Aug 2026
Posting Date: 31 Jul 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 146285572
Document Ref. No.: BIAO-RFI-2026
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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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 operational user base.
Submission Deadline: Responses must be submitted electronically no later than 8:00 PM Eastern/5:00 PM Pacific Time on August 21, 2026.
Inquiries: All questions regarding this RFI/Sources Sought Notice must be submitted via email to [email protected] with the subject line: BIAO RFI Question - [Your Company-s Full Name]. To ensure fair competition, the Government will not answer questions on a one-on-one basis. A consolidated list of all questions and official answers will be posted publicly on SAM.gov on or around August 14, 2026. No new questions will be accepted after 5:00 PM Eastern Time on August 10, 2026.
Notice ID: biao-rfi-2026
Department/Ind. Agency: dept of defense
Sub-tier: immediate office of the secretary of defense
Office: director sco
NAICS Code: 54171 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Inactive Dates: aug 22, 2026
Inactive Policy: manual
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