Artificial Intelligence Enablement
Organizations can no longer afford to treat artificial intelligence as an optional enhancement—AI is now a fundamental requirement for maintaining competitiveness. However, integrating AI into business operations presents significant challenges, from ensuring data readiness to maintaining security and compliance in an evolving regulatory landscape. Without a strategic approach, AI initiatives can become inefficient, costly, or even expose businesses to cybersecurity risks.
NFF’s Artificial Intelligence Enablement services provide the expertise and technical foundation required for successful AI adoption, ensuring organizations can leverage AI effectively while mitigating potential risks. NFF provides organizations with a phased plan for AI implementation, addressing data preparedness, security considerations, and the necessary infrastructure to support AI workloads. We evaluate and support organizations in preparing data through rigorous readiness assessments, governance structures, and compliance frameworks, ensuring a seamless integration process.
Our comprehensive approach includes infrastructure design, optimization, and strategic workshops that guide organizations through their AI journey, reducing complexity and enabling faster, more effective AI adoption.
Client Testimonials
NFF is a well-oiled machine, they’re proactive and diligent when it comes to upgrading, monitoring, and replacing our network equipment; they provide thoughtful, well-engineered solutions that assist the STB’s “cloud first” strategy. Vulnerabilities are handled quickly and effectively, and projects are staffed by top notch engineers who have knowledge and history of working STB. NFF has been a great asset to STB, I would recommend them to any federal agency with a need for networking expertise.
Chief Information Officer
United States Surface Transportation Board
“NFF is an outstanding partner for our campus-wide IT requirements. They’re responsive, flexible and their security and engineering teams are outstanding. Our university is more confident that we are prepared to address any eventuality, thanks to NFF.”
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Marymount University
“DC Water selected NFF, Inc. to migrate our campus and remote network environment to a Cisco based solution. NFF’s team of engineers designed and implemented a superior high-speed solution that incorporated redundancy, scalability, and security. The implementation was swift and had minimal impact on our business operation. I am truly impressed with their support and professionalism.”
Manager, Systems Operations
DC Water
“Networking For Future has superior technical talent and project managers that are committed to ensuring their projects are successful. In all capacities, Networking For Future exceeded our expectations and delivered on time and under budget, so I would highly recommend them for any networking support efforts you may need.”
Director of Operations, Technology Services
The Catholic University of America
The leaders and team at NFF are just that—they helped us develop, nurture, and create a team to get our smart city pilot project “in the ground” and working. They went even further after working with other private partners, to assure improvements to our broadband signal was as strong as it could be.
Smart City Manager
City of Raleigh
“The support we have received through NFF and our NetActive agreement has been of the highest caliber. Our partnership with NFF has truly allowed us the ability to focus on our core services and not worry that our ability to serve our customer base will diminish.”
Executive Director, Information Services and Management
The University of the District of Columbia
“NFF Inc. completed a very thorough assessment of our network…Their team was able to methodically pull together in just a few weeks what would have taken others months to document. There wasn’t a question asked that their staff did not have experience in and an answer to.”
IT Manager
DC Fire and EMS
“I think their NetActive program is special. Our network engineers were so busy that we needed to turn to NFF for a knowledgeable engineer that we could trust.”
Director of Network and Datacenter Operations
Georgetown University
“Through the outstanding efforts of innumerable Secret Service employees, and in conjunction with our federal, state, and local partners like NFF Inc., a safe and secure environment was achieved at every event.”
Assistant Director – Protective Operations
US Secret Service
“MPD teamed with NFF to develop an infrastructure upgrade plan to address the network performance issues and to provide a fault tolerant network operation…The findings led to a network refresh that consisted of Cisco Integrated Service Routers and gigabit Catalyst Switches to meet our needs of security, reliability, and performance.”
Deputy Chief Information Officer
DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)
You are probably already aware of the globally impacting CrowdStrike issue, the Board was also affected. Just want to give kudos to the NFF team on a great job responding to the morning emergency and their professionalism in working with affected end users. They were proactive in checking the mobile environment to ensure it was up and running.
IT Manager, End Point Computing Services
Federal Reserve Board
NFF is a pleasure to do business with!
Director of Procurement
Marshall University
The NFF employee was in-person at the “Tax-Sale” and “Tax-Sale Rehearsal” to ensure the event went off without a hitch. He was available in person to address any queries or issues that came up during the Tax-Sale as part of the support team. He learned the entire end to end business process, in addition to contributing to software development prior to the tax sale and has been a great addition to my team in his capacity as a Developer.
IT Manager & Security Officer
DC Office of the Chief Financial Officer
“The NFF team continues to see incredible growth across the Cisco portfolio by driving high value, transformational solutions to our joint customers. Additionally, their post-sales services and support is allowing their customers to achieve the desired business outcomes in short order.”
Partner Account Manager
Cisco Systems
“Cisco Umbrella is a great solution because it provides protection without impacting the end user. They don’t have to change their behavior. Umbrella just
works. The configuration steps were very simple, and it took only a few minutes to point DNS traffic to the Umbrella Global Network.”
IT Security Manager
Montgomery College
“I’m truly excited about the deep level of intelligence regarding our application performance the APM service from NFF will provide. Combined with the efficiencies we will gain from the new infrastructure and data center colocation, the effectiveness of our IT systems and resources will be improved exponentially.”
Director, IT
CSSI
Optimized Infrastructure
AI Adoption
NFF’s Optimized Infrastructure for AI services provide organizations with the robust, scalable foundation needed to support demanding AI workloads, ensuring that AI-driven insights and automation deliver tangible business value.
Design/Build
We provide design consultation and acquisition strategies to develop customized infrastructure solutions that align with our clients’ AI processing needs. From design, procurement, to implementation, we integrate the necessary hardware and software components required for AI infrastructure that supports complex data analysis, model training, and high-speed computation—areas where our expertise in high-performance computing, networking, and cloud environments enables seamless and optimized AI operations.
Infrastructure Acceleration
For businesses and research institutions with existing AI deployments, we deliver Infrastructure Acceleration Services that enhance data processing speeds, optimize model training resources, and streamline deployment to meet the increasing demands of advanced AI applications.
Without a well-structured approach, AI adoption can lead to data inconsistencies, security vulnerabilities, and regulatory challenges that hinder progress rather than accelerate it.
NFF’s AI Adoption Services provide organizations with a strategic framework to securely and effectively implement AI, ensuring that they maximize its potential while maintaining compliance and operational integrity.
Data Readiness
We begin with a comprehensive Data Readiness Analysis to assess data quality, structure, and accessibility, ensuring that AI models are trained on reliable, high-quality datasets.
Data Security
Our expertise in Data Security and Governance help organizations safeguard sensitive information, enforce robust access controls, and mitigate risks associated with AI-driven decision-making.
Policy and Compliance
NFF assists organizations in developing AI Usage Policies and Compliance frameworks that align with industry regulations, ensuring responsible AI implementation.