The National Institute of Standards and Technology is looking for capable contractors to support the development of artificial intelligence tools for assessing and standardizing chemical and biological risks.
The NIST market research aims to advance the federal government’s objective, spearheaded by the AI Safety Institute, to deploy safe, secure and trustworthy Al systems, according to a Friday notice posted on SAM.gov.
The effort aims to assist NIST in establishing federal guidance and benchmarks for evaluating and auditing Al capabilities that could cause harm.
Solicitation Requirements
The potential vendor is expected to develop relevant resources, such as question-and-answer sets for automated capabilities and safety testing of Al models relevant to chemical and biological risks. The contractor should also design new strategies to assess chemical and biological capabilities.
In addition, NIST requires the vendor to provide frontier AI models that can generate hypotheses for identifying chemical agents and automate several areas of biological design.
The government is seeking responses from interested businesses of all sizes, which must outline advanced capabilities that could satisfy the upcoming contract’s requirements.
Submissions will be accepted no later than Nov. 13.
