The Gallatin Logistics Community: Accelerating Innovation for Contested Logistics

COL (Ret.) Jon Beck - Advisor Gallatin Logistics Community

In an era of escalating complexity, logistics is no longer about simply moving goods from point A to point B. It’s about navigating disrupted supply chains, material availability, degraded visibility, and active adversaries acting against these supply chains—often all at once. We stood up the Gallatin Logistics Community (GLC) to meet that challenge head-on, accelerating the delivery of logistics solutions purpose-built for today’s needs.

What Is the Gallatin Logistics Community?

GLC is a growing network of logistics professionals, technologists, and defense innovators who are rethinking how logistics gets done. Anchored by a commitment to speed, flexibility, and mission alignment, GLC brings together government stakeholders, commercial builders, and startup talent to co-develop tools that solve real-world operational problems.

Mission-Driven Software Development: From Concept to Capability in Weeks

Legacy logistics software is too slow, too rigid, and too disconnected from the field. GLC breaks that model by embracing user-driven iteration to ensure new capabilities are rapidly built, tested, and deployed within weeks, not years. This approach keeps pace with the realities of modern operations, where needs shift faster than traditional acquisition can respond.

Five Innovations Powering Gallatin’s Impact

1. AI-Enabled Decision Support

GLC is informing how Gallatin.AI can support real-time resupply, route optimization, and risk analysis—giving commanders and logisticians faster, better and trustworthy answers when seconds matter.

2. Digital Twins for Scenario Planning

Gallatin tools create high-fidelity simulations of logistics environments guided by real world experience from the logistics community, allowing teams to stress-test plans, assess vulnerabilities, and train against realistic disruptions before they happen.

3. Sensors for Automated and Secure Chain of Custody

Integrity matters in contested environments. Gallatin uses sensors to create verifiable, tamper-proof records of inventory movements across complex supply networks and pressure tests their effectiveness using real-world operations.

4. Autonomous and Automated Logistics Systems

From predictive analytics to drone-based deliveries and robotic ground vehicles, Gallatin is advancing autonomous capabilities that reduce risk and increase tempo.

5. Resilient, Redundant Communications

Gallatin partners are building hardened networks—using mesh, satellite, and encrypted links—to keep operators and logisticians connected even in comms-denied or cyber-contested environments.

The Future of Logistics Starts Here

As future conflicts grow more asymmetric and dynamic, logistics must move at the speed of relevance. The Gallatin team is building that future—one iteration at a time informed by decades of real world experience from across DoD logistics.

Whether enabling a warfighter at the edge, supporting humanitarian relief in contested areas, or improving commercial supply chain agility, Gallatin is setting a new standard for what modern logistics can be.

To join the GLC, mail join-glc@gallatin.ai and tell us about yourself. Help shape the next generation of logistics technology, where speed, resilience, and adaptability are critical to success.