Delivering the agent workforce in high-security environments

Governments and enterprises alike are feeling mounting pressure to deliver value with agentic AI while maintaining data sovereignty, security, and regulatory compliance. The move to self-managed environments offers all of the above but also introduces new complexities that require a fundamentally new approach to AI stack design, especially in high security environments. 

Managing an AI infrastructure means taking on the full weight of integration, validation, and compliance. Every model, component, and deployment must be vetted and tested. Even small updates can trigger rework, slow progress, and introduce risk. In high-assurance environments, there is added weight of doing all this under strict regulatory and data sovereignty requirements. 

What’s needed is an AI stack that delivers both flexibility and assurance in on-prem environments, enabling complete lifecycle management anywhere agentic AI is deployed.

In this post, we’ll look at what it takes to deliver the agentic workforce of the future in even the most secure and highly regulated environments, the risks of getting it wrong, and how DataRobot and NVIDIA have come together to solve it.

With the recently announced Agent Workforce Platform and NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design, organizations can now deploy agentic AI anywhere, from commercial clouds to air-gapped and sovereign installations, with secure access to NVIDIA Nemotron reasoning models and complete lifecycle control.

Fit-for-purpose agentic AI in secure environments

No two environments are the same when it comes to building an agentic AI stack. In air-gapped, sovereign, or mission-critical environments, every component, from hardware to model, must be designed and validated for interoperability, compliance, and observability.

Without that foundation, projects stall as teams spend months testing, integrating, and revalidating tools. Budgets expand while timelines slip, and the stack grows more complex with each new addition. Teams often end up choosing between the tools they had time to vet, rather than what best fits the mission.

The result is a system that not only misaligns with business needs, where simply maintaining and updating components can cause operations to slow to a crawl.

Starting with validated components and a composable design addresses these challenges by ensuring that every layer—from accelerated infrastructure to development environments to agentic AI in production—operates securely and reliably as one system.

A validated solution from DataRobot and NVIDIA

DataRobot and NVIDIA have shown what is possible by delivering a fully validated, full-stack solution for agentic AI. Earlier this year, we introduced the DataRobot Agent Workforce Platform, a first-of-its-kind solution that enables organizations to build, operate, and govern their own agentic workforce.

Co-developed with NVIDIA, this solution can be deployed on-prem and even air-gapped environments, and is fully validated for the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory for Government reference architecture. This collaboration gives organizations a proven foundation for developing, deploying, and governing their agentic AI workforce across any environment with confidence and control.

This means flexibility and choice at every layer of the stack, and every component that goes into agentic AI solutions. IT teams can start with their unique infrastructure and choose the components that best fit their needs. Developers can bring the latest tools and models to where their data sits, and rapidly test, develop, and deploy where it can provide the most impact while ensuring security and regulatory rigor. 

With the DataRobot Workbench and Registry, users gain access to NVIDIA NIM microservices with over 80 NIM, prebuilt templates, and assistive development tools that accelerate prototyping and optimization. Tracing tables and a visual tracing interface make it easy to compare at the component level and then fine tune performance of full workflows before agents move to production.

With easy access to NVIDIA Nemotron reasoning models, organizations can deliver a flexible and intelligent agentic workforce wherever it’s needed. NVIDIA Nemotron models merge the full-stack engineering expertise of NVIDIA with truly open-source accessibility, to empower organizations to build, integrate, and evolve agentic AI in ways that drive rapid innovation and impact across diverse missions and industries.

When agents are ready, organizations can deploy and monitor them with just a few clicks —integrating with existing CI/CD pipelines, applying real-time moderation guardrails, and validating compliance before going live.

The NVIDIA AI Factory for Government provides a trusted foundation for DataRobot with a full stack, end-to-end reference design that brings the power of AI to highly regulated organizations. Together, the Agent Workforce Platform and NVIDIA AI Factory deliver the most comprehensive solution for building, operating, and governing intelligent agentic AI on-premises, at the edge, and in the most secure environments.

Real-world agentic AI at the edge: Radio Intelligence Agent (RIA)

Deepwave, DataRobot, and NVIDIA have brought this validated solution to life with the Radio Intelligence Agent (RIA). This joint solution enables transformation of radio frequency (RF) signals into complex analysis — simply by asking a question.

Deepwave’s AIR-T sensors capture and process radio-frequency (RF) signals locally, removing the need to transmit sensitive data off-site. NVIDIA’s accelerated computing infrastructure and NIM microservices provide the secure inference layer, while NVIDIA Nemotron reasoning models interpret complex patterns and generate mission-ready insights.

DataRobot’s Agent Workforce Platform orchestrates and manages the lifecycle of these agents, ensuring each model and microservice is deployed, monitored, and audited with full control. The result is a sovereign-ready RF Intelligence Agent that delivers continuous, proactive awareness and rapid decision support at the edge.

This same design can be adapted across use cases such as predictive maintenance, financial stress testing, cyber defense, and smart-grid operations. Here are just a few applications for high-security agentic systems: 

Industrial & energy (edge / on-Prem)	Federal & secure environments	Financial services
Pipeline fault detection and predictive maintenance	Signal intelligence processing for secure comms monitoring	Cutting-edge trading research
Oil rig operations monitoring and safety compliance	Classified data analysis in air-gapped environments	Credit risk scoring with controlled data residency
Critical infra smart grid anomaly detection and reliability assurance	Secure battlefield logistics and supply chain optimization	Anti-money laundering (AML) with sovereign data handling
Remote mining site equipment health monitoring	Cyber defense and intrusion detection in restricted networks	Stress testing and scenario modeling under compliance controls

Agentic AI built for the mission

Success in operationalizing agentic AI in high-security environments means going beyond balancing innovation with control. It means efficiently delivering the right solution for the job, where it’s needed, and keeping it running to the highest performance standards. It means scaling from one agentic solution to an agentic workforce with complete visibility and trust.

When every component, from infrastructure to orchestration, works together, organizations gain the flexibility and assurance needed to deliver value from agentic AI, whether in a single air-gapped edge solution or an entire self-managed agentic AI workforce.

With NVIDIA AI Factory for Government providing the trusted foundation and DataRobot’s Agent Workforce Platform delivering orchestration and control, enterprises and agencies can deploy agentic AI anywhere with confidence, scaling securely, efficiently, and with complete visibility.

To learn more how DataRobot can help advance your AI ambitions, visit us at datarobot.com/government.