# Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO) Request for Information (RFI)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/biaorfi2026

- Solicitation number: BIAO-RFI-2026
- Notice type: Sources sought
- Status: Closed. Deadline was August 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of the Army
- Agency: Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Contracting office: Director Sco (HY0233)
- NAICS: 54171 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- Place of performance: Chantilly, Virginia
- First posted: July 30, 2026
- Last posted: August 17, 2026
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/eafd04ef86cd4505ad44ca9955739a76/view

## Description

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 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 BIAO@sco.mil 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.

## Publications

- July 30, 2026: Sources sought, due August 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM EDT. Notice 374bfa4bc5534db89fb71e750f7849f9. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/374bfa4bc5534db89fb71e750f7849f9/view
- August 17, 2026: Sources sought, due August 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM EDT. Notice eafd04ef86cd4505ad44ca9955739a76. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/eafd04ef86cd4505ad44ca9955739a76/view

## Points of contact

- BIAO Team, BIAO@sco.mil

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