Sources SoughtPosted Jul 30, 2026·Responses due Aug 22, 2026

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

Department of Defense (all) · DIRECTOR SCO

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
54171
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
BIAO-RFI-2026
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
Not stated
Place
Chantilly, VA, USA
Contact
BIAO Team (BIAO@sco.mil)
…Open on SAM.gov
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation BIAO-RFI-2026 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Jul 30, 2026 · this notice
    Sources Sought
  • Aug 17, 2026
    Sources Sought
    Open
Solicitation
None posted
Award
Not yet. Too few past cases at this agency to estimate timing (0 found; 10 needed).

Next steps for this stage

Standard steps for the notice type; not advice about this buyer.

  • Answer the notice: this is when the requirement can still be shaped.
  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

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 (LI… (show all)

N), 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.

Who won similar work

8 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (Department of Defense (all)), same NAICS 54171.

Single-winner award sizes (8): middle half $215K to $821K, median $267K; range $70K to $5.0M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION Reno NV 89512 USA1$5.0MAug 25, 2025
Applied Research Associates, Inc.1$1.4MMar 3, 2026
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Chapel Hill NC 27599 USA1$628KAug 6, 2026
FOLLUM HYDROLOGIC SOLUTIONS, LLC1$303KJan 8, 2026
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY Raleigh NC 27695 USA1$231KAug 21, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC Notre Dame IN 46556 USA1$225KSep 15, 2025
PACIFIC FORUM INTERNATIONAL Honolulu HI 96813 USA1$183KMar 20, 2025
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Stony Brook NY 11794 USA1$70KAug 12, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Latest awards

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 1 of these past winners lobbied Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2024 (9 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Defense, Dept of (DOD) or Office of the Secretary of Defense or Joint Chiefs of Staff job
  • No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 1 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 0 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.

Companies are matched to tickers by exact name only. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.