Threat Screening Center AI Enhancement

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Threat Screening Center is seeking industry input through a Request for Information to enhance its national security operations with AI-driven automation capabilities. The effort aims to streamline time-intensive, manual tasks involving large volumes of cross-domain data by developing systems capable of federated search across disparate platforms, automated querying of external databases for data enrichment, predictive threat modeling, dynamic visualization, and AI-powered knowledge base navigation with full source traceability. All solutions must align with the FBI’s AI Ethics Council standards, ensuring transparency, audit readiness, and citation retention in every output, with no tolerance for black-box decision-making. Performance is expected to occur in Clarksburg, West Virginia, with the contracting office located in Washington, DC, and responses must be submitted via email to Brandon James by April 10, 2026, no later than 3:00 PM Eastern Time, in a single package not exceeding 25 pages in standard formatting, with separate submission of test license terms excluded from the page limit. The RFI is purely for market research and does not represent a commitment to award a contract, nor does it include pricing, contract clauses, evaluation factors, or funding details. Vendors must provide their Unique Entity Identifier and CAGE code, disclose business size status with an explanation of their ability to perform at least 50% of the work if claiming small business status, and indicate whether they hold a GSA Schedule or NASA SEWP contract. Facility security clearance status is requested but not a formal requirement for response, and all submitted technologies must be unclassified and compliant with FBI ethical guidelines. No formal contract type, delivery schedule, or inspection criteria have been defined at this stage, and terms such as FOB, invoicing method, or accounting codes are not applicable. Any future procurement will derive requirements from the responses to this RFI, and potential contractors must be prepared to meet stringent requirements around data lineage, AI accountability, and system integrity without referenced external standards beyond the FBI’s internal AI governance framework.