Salesforce to Acquire Rune Technologies in Biggest National Security Deal

What Rune Technologies does

Rune Technologies builds solutions for logistics and sustainment operations in military settings. Its technology helps frontline teams forecast supply needs, optimize resources and make mission-critical decisions, including in DDIL environments (denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited connectivity), where formations operate with little or no connectivity.

Salesforce says field logistics decisions often happen far from the enterprise systems that track personnel, equipment and supplies. Rune Technologies connects information from those systems with real-time operational data so military logisticians and their commanders can respond faster and maintain mission readiness.

The company's platform uses situational intelligence, simulation and optimization models. According to Salesforce, these forecast demand and resupply needs, recommend resource allocation and transportation routing, and help teams evaluate logistics plans before and during operational execution. The system synchronizes when the network returns.

Rune Technologies is already deployed with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps. Co-founders David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough launched it in 2024, drawing on leadership experience at Anduril and a team of military veterans and senior technologists.

How it fits into Missionforce

The deal would broaden Salesforce's Missionforce portfolio with purpose-built super intelligence (SI) capabilities for logistics at the tactical edge. Salesforce says Rune Technologies would complement Missionforce Operations and its ability to automate complex enterprise processes, connecting frontline supply and movement needs with the workflows that support them. The stated benefits are improved resource coordination, operational visibility, field service and asset management.

Salesforce describes modern defense operations as running across three layers: enterprise systems of record at headquarters, a strategic HQ layer where planning happens, and the operational edge, where frontline units decide under time and connectivity pressure. According to the company, Missionforce has established Salesforce as the system of record for the first two layers across the U.S. military and allied forces, and Rune Technologies completes the third.

For existing Missionforce customers, including service branches, allied ministries of defense and defense agencies, Salesforce says personnel status, maintenance workflows, acquisition processes and sustainment plans would keep operating as the same unit of record whether a formation is in garrison, forward-deployed or under emissions control, reconciling automatically when connectivity is restored. For units already running Rune Technologies, Salesforce says edge decisions would land natively in the enterprise systems of record used across the services, without custom integration.

Defense business growth and executive comments

Salesforce says its defense business is growing 80% year over year one year after the Missionforce launch, with customers across 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.

"Salesforce is doubling down on national security with our most significant acquisition in this space," said Kendall Collins, President and CEO of Missionforce and Government Cloud at Salesforce. He added that Rune Technologies extends Missionforce's work "into frontline logistics, bringing agent-powered capabilities to the tactical edge."

David Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder of Rune Technologies, said the company was built to deliver modern technologies for military sustainers at the front lines, "where they need to make critical battlefield decisions even without reliable connectivity."

Timing and what it means

The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2027, subject to customary closing conditions. Financial terms were not included in the announcement.

If completed, the deal would give Salesforce a product aimed at the disconnected edge of military operations, an area its Missionforce offering did not previously cover according to the company's own description of the three layers. For defense customers already on the platform, the pitch is a single record that spans headquarters to the field.