Industry Day for Basic Information Awareness Operations (BIAO)

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.

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:

1. Full (Legal) Name
2. Title
3. Company Name
4. Unclassified Email Address
5. Unclassified Phone Number