WASHINGTON – U.S. federal law-enforcement experts are reaching out to industry for enabling technologies that help capitalize on artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance counterintelligence and security and improve the organization of its federal law enforcement investigations.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Washington issued a solicitation (DJF-23-1200-BAA-05172023) in November for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Innovation Ventures Office (IVO) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA).
This Enterprise Problem Sets project seeks to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and its sub-fields; enhance counterintelligence and security; develop mission-enhancing technologies; improve mission support capabilities; and increase organizational effectiveness.
The AI portion of this solicitation involves content extraction and triage; all-source data management; workflow automation; actionable analysis and alerting; semi-autonomous multi-sensor fusion; business operations; data science; knowledge management; open-source information gathering; correspondence management from multiple sources; dynamic threat analysis; human resource recruiting; signature identification; cyber security; and AI governance.
Counterintelligence technologies
Enhancing counterintelligence and security involves counterintelligence capability; personnel assessment and evaluation; cyber behavior; and foreign contacts.
Mission-enhancing science and technology involves digital exploitation; document and media acquisition; human language technologies; computer vision; digital signal processing; data, process, and user artifact analysis; document and media exploitation; directed energy weapons; biometrics; weapons of mass destruction; electro-optical detection; pulsed power detection; and RF detection.
Improving mission-support capabilities involves information technology (IT); it governance; data management and analytics; infrastructure and cloud management; information assurance and cyber defense; operations support; strategic information and operations; cyber capability requirements process; and enterprise common data fabric solutions.
Tell me more about user artifact analysis ...
- User artifact analysis is the systematic study of objects created, used, or repurposed by users to understand their behaviors, needs, and problem-solving methods. It involves examining the artifacts' materials, design, and context to infer cultural, social, and technological insights. This method is commonly used in archaeology to reveal historical and cultural details, and in UX research to gain deeper understanding of users by observing the tools and items they use or modify. The analysis includes steps such as identification, contextual and material analysis, functional interpretation, and connecting findings to larger cultural or user experience insights. Artifact analysis helps reveal unaddressed problems, user workflows, and opportunities for design innovation or historical interpretation.
Proposed solutions should deliver enabling technologies for law-enforcement information sharing; ways to access and correlate data; common data fabric components; working in secure cloud networks; data governance and compliance logic; systems integration; mission service technologies; applications that support business; and content management discovery processes and retrieval applications.
Increasing organizational effectiveness involves applicant screening; career advancement; and workplace learning and performance.
Companies interested should email white papers no later than 16 May 2026 to [email protected]. Those submitting promising white papers may be invited to submit full proposals.
Email questions or concerns to the FBI's Marie Agrinzoni at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/4ce7b797db98490d9d0fae3e5fd0f769/view.
