Accelerating Federal AI Adoption with Secure, Compliant AI Infrastructure as Part of NVIDIA AI Factory for Government

According to a July 2025 GAO report, federal adoption of generative AI increased ninefold between 2023 and 2024. Yet as AI transforms government operations, agencies face mounting challenges aligning innovation with stringent policies, security standards, and compliance frameworks. Ten of the twelve agencies surveyed cited regulatory friction as one of the most significant barriers to deploying AI technologies effectively.

Fed, state, and municipal organizations – and the ecosystem of IT and services providers supporting them – now need scalable, secure, and repeatable solutions that allow them to harness AI responsibly while meeting compliance mandates and mission objectives.

A Trusted Collaboration for Government AI

To help agencies overcome these barriers, Mirantis is working with NVIDIA to deliver a turnkey solution that helps operationalize the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design through the Mirantis k0rdent AI platform. This collaboration brings together FIPS- and STIG-compliant infrastructure components in a unified, secure experience. The result: agencies can stand up GPU infrastructure and AI services rapidly, securely, and in full alignment with federal IT and data policies.

By integrating Mirantis k0rdent AI with NVIDIA AI Factory for Government components, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise software built to support federal agencies and high-assurance organizations, government platform architects and engineers gain a modern infrastructure management layer purpose-built for scalable training, inference, and data-intensive workloads. The combined solution ensures compliance, observability, resilience, and performance across both on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.

Simplifying AI Infrastructure Operations

Mirantis k0rdent AI automates provisioning, lifecycle management, and multi-tenant orchestration across compute, network, storage, and GPU resources. Automated deployment workflows and validated templates accelerate application delivery while also ensuring consistent, compliant deployments. Designed to meet FED and SLED requirements, k0rdent AI streamlines operations through built-in authentication, observability, and auditing – with required core services such as DNS, IDM, and VPN.

An integrated cloud console provides seamless, on-demand access to AI and data services through a unified, self-service experience. Agency tenants can effortlessly deploy training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads alongside data solutions such as PostgreSQL+PGVector, Weaviate, or ChromaDB – ensuring secure access to advanced AI capabilities across mission-critical environments.

Extending Value: From Metal to Model

Mirantis and NVIDIA empower agencies to seamlessly manage both AI infrastructure and inference layers through NVIDIA Run:ai integration. This solution simplifies deploying and orchestrating training and inference workloads across Kubernetes clusters – eliminating operational complexity and accelerating scalable AI initiatives. By abstracting the complexities of resource management, agencies gain faster access to production-ready AI environments without manual toil.

The integrated NVIDIA Run:ai experience enhances GPU utilization with intelligent workload scheduling, dynamically allocating compute resources to where they are most needed. This boosts efficiency and reduces infrastructure costs while maintaining compliance and security standards essential to federal environments. With centralized visibility and policy-driven governance, IT teams confidently manage distributed AI workloads across hybrid and on-premises deployments – accelerating the journey from experimentation to mission-critical applications.

Proven Federal Expertise

Mirantis has a long track record of providing accredited, STIG- and FedRAMP-aligned solutions for federal and defense customers. Its technologies are certified across Linux and Windows environments, supporting full-stack lifecycle management – even in air-gapped, classified, or disconnected infrastructures.

The NVIDIA AI Factory for Government, meanwhile, offers  a full-stack, end-to-end, reference design that integrates NVIDIA’s ecosystem of frameworks, libraries, and data center software – including PyTorch, NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton, NVIDIA TAO, and NVIDIA GPU Operator – as part of an architecture built for assurance and performance.

Mirantis and NVIDIA give government agencies a trusted foundation for mission-scale AI deployment – empowering them to innovate faster, maintain control, and uphold the highest standards of security and compliance.