Salesforce said on Thursday it will buy defence technology company Rune Technologies to expand Missionforce, its business serving the US military and government agencies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Rune makes AI-powered software that helps troops forecast supply needs, plan the use of resources, and decide where to send them, including in places with little or no network connection. The US Army and US Marine Corps already use its technology. Salesforce said Missionforce is growing 80% year-over-year, a year after launch, with customers in all six branches of the US military. The company has been adding AI offerings through acquisitions. Last week it agreed to buy Braze for about $5.66 billion. The Rune deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2027.

Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies. Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies, a leading edge-native technology provider building solutions to enable critical logistics and sustainment operations for the U.S. military and allied nations. Rune Technologies's technology helps frontline teams forecast supply needs, optimize resources, and make mission-critical decisions - including in DDIL (denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited) environments where frontline formations operate with little or no connectivity. Field logistics decisions often happen far from the enterprise systems that track personnel, equipment, and supplies. Rune Technologies closes that gap by connecting information from those systems with real-time operational data to help military logisticians and their commanders respond faster and maintain mission readiness. The acquisition will broaden Salesforce's Missionforce portfolio with purpose-built super intelligence (SI) capabilities for logistics at the tactical edge. Complementing Missionforce Operations and its ability to automate complex enterprise processes, Rune Technologies will help connect frontline supply and movement needs with the workflows that support them, improving resource coordination, operational visibility, field service, and asset management to strengthen mission and enterprise readiness. Rune Technologies would mark Salesforce's most significant national security-focused acquisition, reinforcing its commitment to mission readiness and the people who serve. The acquisition builds on growing momentum for Missionforce across government and defense. One year after its launch, Salesforce's defense business is growing 80% year over year, with customers spanning all six branches of the U.S. military. Recent milestones include a 10-year U.S. Army contract with a $5.6 billion ceiling to modernize operations. Rune Technologies would build on that foundation with purpose-built SI for frontline logistics and mission readiness. "Salesforce is doubling down on national security with our most significant acquisition in this space," said Kendall Collins, President and CEO, Missionforce and Government Cloud, Salesforce. "Missionforce is already helping defense organizations modernize operational readiness. Rune Technologies extends that work into frontline logistics, bringing agent-powered capabilities to the tactical edge - keeping equipment, supplies, and personnel moving. Together, we'll advance our vision for an edge-to-enterprise platform that supports continuous mission readiness." "We built Rune Technologies to build and deliver modern technologies and capabilities for our military sustainers at the front lines, where they need to make critical battlefield decisions even without reliable connectivity," said David Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder of Rune Technologies. "With Salesforce, we can take what we've built further, connecting operational logistics from the frontline to the enterprise, supporting the mission to help service members respond faster and stay mission-ready." For the service branches, allied ministries of defense, and defense agencies already modernizing on Missionforce, Rune Technologies extends the readiness picture past the last reliable network. Personnel status, maintenance workflows, acquisition processes, and sustainment plans continue to operate as the same unit of record whether a formation is in garrison, forward-deployed, or operating under emissions control - reconciling automatically when connectivity is restored. For the units already running Rune Technologies at the tactical edge, integrating Missionforce means edge decisions land natively in the enterprise systems of record used across the services, without custom integration, and backed by Salesforce's platform, security posture, and delivery reach. Edge-to-Enterprise as Architecture. Modern defense operations run across three connected layers: the Enterprise systems of record at headquarters, the Strategic HQ layer where critical planning happens, and the Operational Edge, where frontline units make decisions under time and connectivity pressure. Missionforce has established Salesforce as the system of record for the first two layers across the U.S. military and allied forces. Rune Technologies completes the third. Its SI platform brings together information from enterprise systems and live operational data, operating in DDIL environments - denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited connectivity - and synchronizing when the network returns. Its purpose-built situational intelligence, simulation, and optimization models forecast demand and resupply needs, recommend resource allocation and transportation routing, and help teams evaluate logistics plans before and during operational execution. Already deployed with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps, Rune Technologies brings technology built for the demands of frontline operations. Co-founders David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough launched the company in 2024, uniting a team with deep expertise across military operations, defense technology, and SI engineering. Drawing on their leadership experience at Anduril - alongside a team of military veterans and senior technologists - the founders apply firsthand knowledge to solve the exact sustainment challenges frontline units face in the field. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2027, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Get the latest Salesforce News & Insights, straight to your inbox.

Gallatin raises $50M to replace Army clipboards with AI. 8VC and Silent Ventures backed Gallatin AI's Series A, two years after 8VC's own programme incubated the company, while rival Rune Technologies already holds a five-year $99M Army deal. Gallatin AI, a company that writes planning software for military supply chains from offices in Washington, DC and El Segundo, California, has raised $50M. 8VC and Silent Ventures put money into the round, which Gallatin says takes its total funding to $70M, all of it equity. The product is called Navigator, and it is aimed at the people who decide what gets delivered to whom. It pulls supply, transport and maintenance data into one view, then helps planners work out how to move fuel, medical supplies and ammunition to units that need them. Woody Glier, the chief executive, described the problem in blunt terms. "A lot of the logistics data that is generated today is very manual," he said. "It's very messy, literally like clipboard and pen and paper." The founders come from large technology companies rather than from the established defence contractors. Glier spent seven years at Palantir and two building Scale AI's federal business. Chief product officer Brian Ballard founded the industrial software firm Upskill before TeamViewer bought it, and chief technology officer Daniel Buchmueller co-founded Amazon Prime Air after starting as a Microsoft engineer. Gallatin says that Navigator has supported American military exercises in Japan, Alaska and Europe, and that Army and Air Force users run it for tactical and strategic planning. It also runs inside Palantir Foundry, a data platform the government already uses, which lets it inherit security approvals rather than seek its own. The clipboard claim checks out. A chief executive describing the market he sells into is not evidence, but in this case an independent body has described the same thing. The US Government Accountability Office told a Senate subcommittee in March that the Department of Defense faces challenges supporting forces logistically, particularly in contested environments. One finding matches Glier's phrasing almost exactly. The watchdog reported that Army watercraft maintenance still relies on handwritten systems, with updates to repair manuals arriving late. The consequences show up in readiness figures, where a shortage of parts and equipment was the leading reason that 14 of the 18 Army and Marine Corps ground vehicles it examined were rated unfit for use in the 2024 financial year. Army watercraft rated fully fit fell from 75% in 2020 to under 40% in 2024. The institutional response has been slow by the watchdog's own account. GAO has made nearly 200 recommendations on readiness across its reports, and more than 150 of them remain unacted on, including recommendations on fuel storage and weapon maintenance in the Indo-Pacific. 8VC funded what 8VC built. The investor list repays a second look. 8VC led Gallatin's $15M seed round in 2025 and has now backed this one. The company was incubated through 8VC's Build programme, the same route that produced the defence companies Epirus and Saronic. That is a common structure in defence technology, and it carries a known effect. One firm created the company, funded it first and has now led the next round, so it is pricing an asset it assembled, and the signal a Series A normally sends is weaker than it looks from outside. The round's shape leaves another gap. Gallatin's announced rounds come to $65M, the $15M seed plus this $50M, against a stated total of $70M, which implies about $5M raised without being itemised publicly. No valuation, revenue or headcount figure accompanied the announcement. For a company selling to government buyers, those omissions are routine, and they also leave outsiders without a way to judge the scale behind the claims. A rival is further along on paper. Gallatin is not alone in this market, and a competitor has the stronger contractual position. Rune Technologies won a $99M contract at an agreed fixed price from Army Contracting Command for its TyrOS logistics platform, with an estimated completion date of 15 June 2031. The two products describe similar work. TyrOS merges supply, transport, maintenance, personnel and mapping data into a shared picture, then schedules deliveries against mission requirements. It is built to run on equipment in the field as well as in the cloud. Gallatin's public contract position is earlier in the pipeline. It announced an Army small business award in March, under a programme called PORTAL. The 18-month contract covers building and testing a prototype of its demand forecasting and planning tools with operational units. That difference is one of stage rather than merit, since a prototype award can grow into a funded long-term programme. A contract of Rune's kind is a permission to buy rather than a guarantee that orders follow, and the next procurement cycle will test both propositions. What has not been measured. The claims about exercises and users are the company's own. Gallatin has not published measured outcomes, such as shorter planning cycles, fewer units running out of supplies, or faster resupply, and no customer has published them either. That matters more in this category than in most, because logistics software is bought on the promise of a quantified improvement. The Army's own readiness data is detailed enough for a real effect to become visible in it. Glier also pointed at the problem the autonomy industry is leaving behind it. "If you had 1,000 autonomous assets, 10,000, you still have the problem of: what's going in them?" he said. That is the gap between a machine that can move and a system that decides what it carries. The authority question sits underneath the product, because Navigator generates suggested plans for logisticians to choose between. How much of a resupply decision a commander hands to software is the familiar matter of where an agent's authority ends. Glier was candid about the difficulty of the business itself. "Building a defense-tech company is not for the faint of heart," he said. What the round establishes is that investors will fund logistics software for the military at a time when most defence capital has gone to drones, munitions and autonomy. The problem is documented by the government's own auditor, and the buyers are already failing to meet their readiness targets. What it does not establish is which supplier solves the problem. Two companies are now selling overlapping products into the same Army customer, one with a five-year contract vehicle and one with an 18-month prototype. Neither has published a measured result from a deployed system.