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On October 28, Salesforce, 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.”
Source: Salesforce
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