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Industry Day for Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO)

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SCO-PS-26-07Federal

Submission Closed06/13/2026, 03:59:00 AM UTC

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The Department of War’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) is hosting an Unclassified Industry Day on June 24, 2026, in Oxford, Mississippi, to introduce Project Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO). This initiative aims to develop an integrated technology platform capable of detecting and countering adversary activities in the cognitive domain, including misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and coordinated information operations. The SCO is seeking industry partners with expertise in several specialized areas such as detection of deepfakes and coordinated inauthentic behavior, creation of accurate content for information messaging, modeling and simulation of information environments, and evaluation of these technologies for benchmarking and integration into a unified user interface. Attendance at this industry event is limited, with registration required by June 12, 2026, and strictly capped at two representatives per company, including subsidiaries. The event will provide detailed program information and guidance on how to engage with SCO for future collaboration. Interested parties must register by submitting specific attendee details via email, and late registrations or walk-ins will not be permitted. The solicitation is posted under the Department of Defense with a focus on NAICS code 54171, and the primary contact for the event is the BIAO Team at SCO. Further logistical and agenda specifics are expected to be released closer to the event date.

General Info

SCO hosts June 24 Industry Day for Project BIAO, seeking tech partners for cognitive domain defense.

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Department Of Defense

NAICS

54171View NAICS

Place of Performance

VA, 20151, USA

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PhaseClosed

PostedMay 26

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Response DeadlineJun 13

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Submission Closed

06/13/2026, 03:59:00 AM UTC

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Full Description

Industry Day Announcement

Department of War (DoW), Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO)

Project Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO)

The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) will hold an Unclassified Industry Day on Wednesday, June 24th in Oxford, Mississippi for Project BIAO.

0800-0900 Central Time: Check-in

0900-1200 Central Time: Industry Day Event

BIAO will create an enterprise technology stack to detect and counter adversary cognitive domain operations, mis/dis/mal information, and coordinated information operations (IO).

DoW seeks industry partners with capabilities in the following areas:

IO Detection: to include deepfake / generated data detection, social media monitoring tools, and coordinated inauthentic behavior detection and characterization;
Information Generation: to include tools tailored to develop robust content for accurate information messaging across media platforms;
Modeling and Simulation of the Information Environment: to include population models, quantitative measures of effectiveness, and model validation and verification approaches;
Digital and physical measures of effectiveness for information operations;
Integration of toolsets of this type into a single technology stack and user interface; and,
Evaluation of toolsets of this type for benchmarking, comparing, and relevance to the latest technology advancements.

The intent of this Industry Day is to provide further information on program specifics and how to engage with SCO moving forward.

This announcement will be updated with more detailed information around specific agenda, locations, and logistics.

Industry Day Registration:

To attend the BIAO Industry Day, attendees must register no later than 12 June 2026. Registration requests or changes after the deadline, to include walk-ins on the day of the conference, will not be accepted.

Space is limited, so each company (including all business units and subsidiaries) will be limited to two (2) attendees.

To register, the following information must be emailed to BIAO_ID@sco.mil for each attendee in the following format:

Full (Legal) Name
Title
Company Name
Unclassified Email Address
Unclassified Phone Number

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