Spectro Cloud: building trusted AI factories for government with NVIDIA

Empowering secure, sovereign AI innovation

Government agencies and regulated organizations around the world are embracing AI — not just as a research tool, but as a mission-critical capability. 

From accelerating intelligence analysis and cybersecurity to transforming citizen services and infrastructure operations, AI is reshaping how public sector missions are achieved. 

Yet these organizations face unique barriers: strict compliance requirements, data sovereignty, and the operational challenges of scaling complex, secure infrastructure.

That’s where the  NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design — and Spectro Cloud’s Palette VerteX and PaletteAI Secure platforms — come together to make a difference.

A foundation for sovereign AI

The NVIDIA AI Factory for Government is a full-stack, end-to-end reference design for deploying and managing AI workloads in high-assurance environments. Based  on the NVIDIA  Blackwell platform  and  government-ready software containers as a part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, it provides agencies with guidance to deploy Agentic AI, Physical AI, and HPC workloads on-premises or across hybrid clouds — while meeting security standards for highly regulated environments.

Spectro Cloud is included in the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design to accelerate deployments of AI agents and applications in federal and enterprise deployments.

Our Palette VerteX platform delivers the orchestration, lifecycle management, and security automation needed to operationalize NVIDIA AI Factories with confidence. Using Palette VerteX, government IT teams can centrally manage container and virtual machine workloads across classified networks, air-gapped data centers, and sovereign cloud regions — from AWS GovCloud and Azure Government to secret on-prem environments.

Mission-ready infrastructure with Palette VerteX

Built specifically for regulated and classified use cases, Palette VerteX brings the flexibility and control of Kubernetes to environments where security, reliability, and compliance are non-negotiable. It is:

• FIPS 140-3 validated across all cryptographic modules and compliant with federal STIG requirements.
• Proven in government and intelligence environments.
• Suitable for air-gapped deployments and hybrid operations across VMware, Nutanix, bare metal, and multi-cloud regions.
• Equipped with automated auditing, vulnerability scanning, and governance enforcement for full traceability and compliance reporting.

Spectro Cloud’s commitment to security runs deep. With ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 credentials, our platforms are built to protect sensitive workloads across the software lifecycle — ensuring agencies can scale securely from prototype to production.

Protecting AI workloads with PaletteAI Secure

Spectro Cloud continues to simplify AI infrastructure deployment with NVIDIA. Through this integration Palette VerteX and the new PaletteAI Secure platform provide seamless lifecycle management for NVIDIA AI infrastructure, including:

• NVIDIA accelerated computing and  NVIDIA BlueField DPU lifecycle automation using the NVIDIA DOCA software framework.
• Integrated support for NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA NeMo, and NVIDIA NIM microservices for AI model operations at scale.

• Streamlined deployment of NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and GPU-accelerated infrastructure from the edge to the data center.

This integration means federal agencies and defense organizations can deploy hardened, repeatable, and high-performance AI environments — without the manual overhead or risk of misconfiguration that traditionally slows down classified and sovereign IT projects.

Introducing SAINA: the Secure AI-Native Architecture

At the core of Spectro Cloud’s NVIDIA technology integration lies SAINA — the Secure AI-Native Architecture. It extends the security posture of PaletteAI Secure into a comprehensive zero-trust architecture purpose-built for AI factories.

Key security pillars of SAINA:

• Zero-trust deployment: Enforces workload isolation and identity verification at the Bluefield DPU level.
• Confidential computing: Protects data privacy during AI model training and inference.
• Data encryption everywhere: Adheres to FIPS 140-3 standards for data in transit, at rest, and in use.
• Policy-driven governance: Aligns with frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and DISA STIG.
• Continuous risk detection and remediation: Provides real-time monitoring and automated recovery.

By combining NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, DOCA, and Spectro Cloud’s control plane, SAINA ensures consistent, zero-trust protection across every layer of the AI stack — from model training pipelines to edge inference nodes.

A new standard for secure AI operations

Spectro Cloud is redefining what secure, compliant AI infrastructure looks like for the public sector with NVIDIA. The result is a platform that balances security, scalability, and agility, empowering agencies to harness the potential of AI responsibly.

With the combination of the NVIDIA AI Factory for Government reference design and Spectro Cloud Palette VerteX and PaletteAI Secure, organizations gain:

• Compliance with FIPS 140-3, FedRAMP, and DISA STIG requirements.
• Unified lifecycle management for infrastructure and AI workloads across classified and unclassified networks.
• Operational consistency across air-gapped, edge, and multi-cloud environments.
• Accelerated time to mission impact through recommended designs that streamline deployment of AI solutions.

See it in action

Spectro Cloud will be showcasing its Palette VerteX and PaletteAI Secure platforms alongside NVIDIA at GTC Washington, D.C., October 27–29, 2025, demonstrating how agencies can build and operate AI factories that are secure by design and ready for mission use.

Learn more about how Spectro Cloud and NVIDIA are powering the next generation of secure AI for government at  palette-ai.com/secure