Rune integrates with Palantir’s Defense OSDK to drive logistics from tactical to strategic

Imagine a world where a US Army or US Marine Corps artillery battery executes a fire mission and the expenditure of 155mm high explosive rounds is automatically reported from the tactical edge, aggregated with the same reporting from hundreds or thousands of similar expenditures, and sent up echelon to paint a near-real time picture of expenditures and ammunition forecasting requirements. All in the matter of seconds. With this data, senior leaders at strategic levels can drive decisions on pre-positioning of new stocks, repositioning of existing stocks, or even production of new ammunition. This is not the far-off future of next year or next decade, this is a reality that could be tomorrow with the power of Rune’s TyrOS extended via Palantir’s powerful Defense Ontology and intuitive Defense OSDK (Ontology Software Development Kit).  

This integration is the real-life embodiment of “First Breakfast”: removing obstacles to accelerate the delivery of best-in-breed defense tech capabilities on an open, extensible software backbone built for mission success and interconnected at all echelons. Over the course of a two-day event, Rune engineers worked side-by-side with Palantir engineers to integrate with Palantir’s Defense OSDK with a particular focus on Palantir’s extensive Sustainment Ontology. This OSDK allowed the Rune team to easily pull in notional force structure and unit relationships as well as taxonomies for all classes of supply including major platforms for all environments. Further, the Rune team was able to integrate to Palantir’s geospatial application, Gaia, demonstrating the ability to pull in geographical threat zones potentially indicating intelligence of enemy activity or destroyed infrastructure requiring circumvention by supply convoys. Rune’s TyrOS used these threat zones to automatically re-route main and alternate supply routes. 

Geographical threat zones from Palantir Gaia (L) integrated to TyrOS (R) for automatic rerouting of supply routes. 

Last but not least, to enable tactical to strategic logistics data proliferation, the Rune team was able to push LOGSTAT data from its TyrOS tactical edge platform to Palantir’s AI Platform (AIP) via the OSDK as well. This bi-directional integration between the OSDK, Gaia and TyrOS enables real-time logistics from the foxhole to the factory, showing the power of open and interoperable solutions to meet military logistics needs across echelons. The integration of TyrOS with Palantir’s AIP allows logistics connectivity across classes of supply and command levels, creating a unified operational picture that links everything from fuel and ammunition to spare parts and medical inventory in real time. 

Tactical LOGSTAT data in TyrOS (L) pushed to Palantir AIP (R) for tactical to strategic inventory visibility. 

This isn’t about some legacy concept of data visualization whereby a General Westmoreland-esque figure sits back and maneuvers individual platoons on the Vietnam battlefield but rather this is about driving tactical data up to strategic levels to inform decision-making based not on stale, manually compiled data, but on a real-time sustainment picture that informs combatant commanders and national military leaderships when making strategically critical decisions.  

Palantir leads in defense software for AI-powered autonomous workflows spanning readiness and manufacturing as well as tactical and strategic decision-making. Palantir’s AI Platform (AIP), Vantage, and Maven Smart System represent state-of-the-art solutions underpinning critical use cases for Joint and Service level Department of Defense end users. Palantir is also committed to First Breakfast principles and scaling commercial technology like Rune’s TyrOS to help accelerate federal innovation. Rune’s TyrOS platform leverages Palantir’s Defense OSDK to deliver a tactical-edge solution that collects, aggregates, and forecasts data from weapon systems, vehicles, fuel storage, and manual reports. Rune can push field-level expenditures and forecasts up to Palantir systems, while Palantir’s platforms can push strategic data down, enabling execution of high-level decisions at the tactical edge. 

Rune’s TyrOS brings AI-enabled logistics forecasting across supply classes, optimizes transport, crew, and routing, and supports resupply decisions and tactical situational awareness for logisticians and their commanders in low-bandwidth, resource constrained environments, across DDIL aware mesh networks. Palantir brings the Sustainment Ontology, exposed over the easy-to-use Defense OSDK, strategic level systems and infrastructure that allows powerful insights and drives decision-making across the battlefield of today and tomorrow. Combined, the integration of Rune’s TyrOS into Palantir’s open platform architecture provides the military logistics enterprise with real-time tactical data to drive operational and strategic decision-making across the joint force.