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 ArchitectureModern 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.
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