NVIDIA, Booz Allen launch AI-ready wireless stack for 6G

NVIDIA unveiled a new artificial intelligence-enabled wireless stack structured to handle data-heavy workloads alongside tech contractor Booz Allen at its GTC event Tuesday.

The NVIDIA-Booz Allen partnership touches two key domains: the creation of an AI-native wireless technology stack designed for 6G and physical artificial intelligence solutions. Other telecom players that contributed to the project’s wireless tech stack alongside Booz Allen and NVIDIA include Cisco, MITRE, ODC and T-Mobile. 

“As AI moves beyond smartphones to cameras, augmented-reality glasses, robots, autonomous vehicles and other devices, wireless networks face mounting demand to support billions of connections at unprecedented scale and efficiency,” the NVIDIA press release said. “To meet this challenge and support transformative technologies like integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) — a critical sensing capability for connecting physical and digital environments — wireless networks must become AI-native across hardware, software and architecture.”

Central to this effort is NVIDIA’s AI-RAN architecture, used to embed AI at every level of wireless communications infrastructure. Physical AI, alternatively, helps machines interact more intelligently with their surroundings through data collected from sensors and cameras. Together, more advanced AI applications and improved spectral connectivity can be unlocked and deployed, according to Ronnie Vasishta, senior vice president of telecom at NVIDIA.

“6G is being built from the ground up with AI at its core — unlocking extreme spectral efficiency, massive connectivity and breakthrough applications,” Vasishta said. “Working with industry leaders, we’ve created an AI-native wireless stack with advanced features to ensure that America will play an instrumental role in the journey to 6G.”

Chris Christou, senior vice president of Edge/NextG at Booz Allen, linked the two during a Monday event, explaining that an AI-enabled wireless network can further help train physical AI solutions by gathering and processing more refined data.

“Within wireless networks, there is a huge amount of data that's available,” Christou said. “So you're not only communicating, you're also sensing, leveraging that same data. This all doesn't happen without AI.”

NVIDIA sees 6G wireless as the groundwork for continued deployment of advanced AI applications, particularly physical AI systems — an upgrade relevant for federal government AI use cases.

As outlined in a Booz Allen emerging trend report released alongside the announcement, AI-native wireless systems have the potential to enable focus areas for federal agencies, such as border security and critical infrastructure surveillance, autonomous systems and pop-up disaster response networks. 

“AI-RAN represents a fundamental shift toward intelligent, adaptive infrastructure that optimizes itself and hosts mission-critical AI services at the edge,” the report said. “This dual capability makes it central to 6G architecture and essential for future federal operations.”