When David Tuttle deployed with the 10th Mountain Division from 2011 to 2012, he remembers tracking vehicles and supplies on whiteboards. More than a decade later, he says whiteboards still fill in when the software can’t.
Tuttle is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rune Technologies. He started the company on July 4, 2024 with Peter Goldsborough, a former chief engineer at Anduril. The two met at Anduril, where Tuttle led the command and control hardware business, and the contrast that kept bothering them was where software attention went. Private-sector investment poured into maneuver, intelligence, and fires within command and control. Sustainment, Tuttle argues, stayed stuck. “But logistics is what determines whether forces can actually fight,” he says.
Rune’s product, TyrOS, is an AI-powered operating system for military logistics. It gives units real-time visibility into supplies, then uses AI to predict resupply needs, recommend distribution plans, and automate logistics decisions. The company’s point of differentiation is structural: TyrOS starts “at the tactical edge and build[s] upward from there.” It can run locally on a laptop or edge device, including in disrupted or low-bandwidth environments. “We do not assume constant connectivity,” Tuttle says.
Rune operates in military logistics and sustainment software—an area Tuttle describes as heavily funded but unevenly modernized. He says the Department of War spends tens of billions each year on logistics software and IT systems, with much of the investment tied to aging enterprise platforms that weren’t built to support the operational logistics enterprise. The urgency, in his view, has sharpened as operational reality has changed. Conflicts like Ukraine and actions against proxy forces in the Middle East have shown how quickly forces burn through supplies and how frequently adversaries target logistics tails.
Rune says TyrOS is deployed with the Army and Marine Corps, and the near-term work is adoption: scaling deployments while making sure the software stays useful to working logisticians. The company is also looking toward integrations with efforts such as autonomous resupply. Longer term, Rune wants “the connective tissue for military sustainment, from the tactical edge all the way back to the industrial base,” so frontline consumption can inform production back home.
To build for that, Rune has hired engineers from Anduril and Palantir alongside people from Google, Meta, and AWS, and paired them with growth and deployment teams that bring logistics experience from military service. After years of watching logistics get tracked on whiteboards, Tuttle is building TyrOS for a system that keeps working when communications don’t.