Gallatin AI Opens New Defense Tech Hub in Austin
Defense logistics software company Gallatin AI announced the opening of a new engineering and delivery hub in Austin, Texas. The company plans to hire for software, AI/ML, and delivery roles, positioning its new office near Fort Hood and key Army sustainment commands.
Gallatin AI's founders, CEO Woody Glier, CTO Daniel Buchmueller, and CPO Brian Ballard, bring experience from major tech and defense organizations like Palantir, Scale AI, Amazon, and the Department of Defense. The company emerged from stealth with $15 million in pre-seed funding to address what its founders see as a critical national security vulnerability: outdated military sustainment and logistics. The company’s flagship product, Navigator, is an AI-powered platform designed to modernize military logistics. It aims to replace manual planning processes, often done on whiteboards and spreadsheets, with a system that provides real-time data integration and AI-generated courses of action for resupply missions. This allows military planners to shift from a reactive to a predictive approach in managing complex supply chains in contested environments. The choice of Austin for its third and largest office is a strategic move to embed its engineering and delivery teams with key Army units. The city's proximity to Fort Hood, Joint Base San Antonio, and the Army's Transformation and Training Command allows for a tighter feedback loop between the software developers and the military logisticians who use the platform daily. Austin is a rapidly growing hub for defense technology, with over 120 defense companies and a significant presence from organizations like Army Futures Command and the Defense Innovation Unit. Gallatin AI's expansion into this ecosystem provides access to a deep pool of engineering talent and places it alongside other dual-use and defense-specific tech companies. Gallatin AI is actively hiring for several specialized roles in its Austin office, including AI Engineers focused on routing and network optimization, as well as backend, frontend, and full-stack engineers. The company is also seeking Engagement Managers for its delivery team to work directly with military customers, and Cleared Software Engineers with Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance. The company's work has already gained recognition from the Department of Defense. In September 2025, Gallatin AI was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the Air Force Materiel Command to explore the use of generative AI in improving supply and demand forecasting for military distribution operations.
