The future of mission-critical operations lies at the convergence of autonomy, intelligence, and security. Today, Deepwave and DataRobot—powered by NVIDIA—are delivering a secure, high-performance AI stack specifically designed for federal and high-security domains. This joint solution empowers agencies to achieve true data sovereignty while accelerating operational excellence from air-gapped environments to contested edge deployments.
The Need for Autonomous Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is advancing from simple analytical tools into autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and acting—an essential shift for applications such as radio frequency (RF) data analysis. Federal agencies face the urgent task of analyzing real-time flows of RF data. With lives on the line, existing solutions leave leaders stuck between piecing together fragile, complex systems or becoming locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem. Neither option supports the agility, control, and security required for modern RF operations.
The Challenge of Radio Intelligence
The real-time collection and analysis of radio frequency (RF) signals spans both communications and emissions from electronic systems. In practice, this often means extracting the content of RF signals—audio, video, or data streams—a process that presents significant challenges for federal agencies.
The challenges are formidable:
- Dynamic signals demand rapid updates to analysis methods
- Edge operations in contested environments make manual analysis too slow
- High data complexity and volume overwhelm existing platforms
The mission-critical requirement is an automated, adaptive platform that delivers actionable insights in real time, enabling faster decisions and greater situational awareness.
Introducing the Radio Intelligence Agent
The Radio Intelligence Agent meets this challenge head-on as an autonomous system that translates raw RF signals into proactive, conversational intelligence. It doesn’t simply retrieve information—it interprets, reasons, and recommends.
Jointly developed by Deepwave and DataRobot, and accelerated by NVIDIA, the agent operates as a trusted team member, integrating seamlessly into agency workflows. Its lifecycle is managed through the DataRobot Agent Workforce Platform, which provides secure orchestration, compliance enforcement, and full operational control across the stack.
Federal Use Cases
The Radio Intelligence Agent enables agencies to shift from reactive analysis to proactive intelligence. Examples include:
- Modern RF signals are highly dynamic and require equally nimble analysis capabilities to keep up.
- Operations often take place at the edge in contested environments, where manual analysis is too slow and not scalable.
- High data rates and signal complexity make RF data extraordinarily difficult to use, and dynamically changing signals require an analysis platform that can adapt in real-time.
The mission-critical need is for an automated and highly reconfigurable solution that can quickly extract actionable intelligence from these vast amounts of data, ensuring timely, potentially life-saving decision-making and reasoning.
How the Radio Intelligence Agent Works
The Radio Intelligence Agent begins by using Deepwave’s high-performance edge processing platform to intercept and process radio frequency signals. This delivers deep signal processing, speech recognition, and speech-to-text (STT) conversion all at the edge, cutting network data backhaul by a factor of 10 million — from 4 Gbps down to just 150 bps per channel. Specifically, in this RIA implementation, the speech recognition and STT conversion are powered by NVIDIA Riva models (RIVA Parakeet 0.6B). Deepwave’s AirStack Edge then reports this data to the DataRobot Agent Workforce platform.
The DataRobot Agent Workforce Platform, co-developed with NVIDIA, then provides the Radio Intelligence Agent with the integrated control plane that orchestrates the entire agentic lifecycle, purpose-built for air-gapped, on-premises, and high-security deployments. This enables development, deployment, and monitoring of solutions custom-tailored to the use case, enabling agencies to build where the data resides and maintain full visibility and control over every layer of the stack. All data processing and communication between components occurs within the agency’s security perimeter to guarantee complete data sovereignty.
The Radio Intelligence Agent is also powered by vetted and tested components, including NVIDIA government-ready software built from a trusted, STIG-ready base layer for FedRAMP compliance. The agent’s core intelligence is powered by NVIDIA Nemotron models, a family of open models, datasets, and technologies that unlock developers to build the most efficient and accurate specialized agentic AI to run anywhere. Additionally, NVIDIA Streaming Data to RAG developer example enables real-time ingestion and processing of live RF data streams using GPU-accelerated pipelines to continuously capture, transcribe, and index RF signals, unlocking real-time situational awareness.
Finally, the agent uses Deepwave’s orchestration to actively recollect new RF intelligence by running new models, recording signals, or broadcasting signals on the edge.
Specialized Collaborations
DataRobot: The solution’s agentic capability uses Nemotron reasoning models through a two-part system—Query Interpreter and Information Retriever—that understands user intent, searches relevant data, and synthesizes context-driven, cohesive responses. DataRobot also delivers the end-user experience through its Agentic AI interface, enabling natural language speech and written inquiries about the underlying RF intelligence.
NVIDIA: Delivers a secure, high‑performance AI infrastructure built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, government-ready software within NVIDIA AI Enterprise, including NVIDIA Riva, NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, for end‑to‑end model development and deployment, NVIDIA Nemotron reasoning models for advanced generative and analytical capabilities, Streaming Data to RAG developer example, and optimized orchestration frameworks for scalable and efficient inference.
A Collaborative Approach to Mission-Critical AI
Bringing together Deepwave’s edge RF intelligence, DataRobot’s lifecycle management, and NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software, this solution empowers agencies to act with speed, precision, and confidence. It enables the shift from reactive monitoring to proactive intelligence—delivering mission-ready AI at the edge.
“The launch of the Radio Intelligence Agent marks a major advancement in agentic RF intelligence,” said Jay Schuren, executive at DataRobot. “We’re excited to see conversational RF intelligence progress beyond the proof-of-concept phase into a fully deployable solution that empowers first responders and security teams on the ground.”
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