Gallatin AI Wins Army PORTAL Phase II SBIR to Advance Predictive Logistics Navigator Platform

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Gallatin AI has secured a Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award under the Army Applications Laboratory’s PORTAL program, positioning its Navigator platform at the center of the U.S. Army’s push for AI-driven contested logistics. Over the next 18 months, Gallatin will deliver a functional logistics planning prototype that uses machine learning to forecast demand and optimization algorithms to generate sustainment plans for units operating across multiple echelons.

Navigator is designed to analyze courses of action in near real time, enabling sustainment planners to anticipate consumption shortfalls and rapidly adapt to enemy interdiction, route denial, and environmental disruption. CEO Woody Glier said the system aims to replace hours-long manual convoy planning with constraint-validated options produced in seconds, giving commanders multiple optimized resupply plans rather than reactive fixes after failures occur.

The award aligns Gallatin AI with two of the Department of War’s six priority areas—Applied Artificial Intelligence and Contested Logistics Technologies—strengthening the company’s strategic role in future large-scale combat operations. By embedding predictive analytics and machine-speed optimization into logistics workflows, Gallatin is directly targeting the military’s need to maintain supply lines under active adversary pressure and degraded networks.

Navigator already runs natively within Maven Smart System and is built to ingest data from Army systems of record, providing a unified view of inventory, personnel, and equipment status. Its open architecture and secure APIs support integration with both legacy platforms and emerging capabilities, improving interoperability and lowering adoption friction for defense customers.

Gallatin AI’s business model blends venture capital funding with defense acquisition, allowing the company to develop Navigator to commercial standards before tailoring it for military use. Glier emphasized that this approach means the Army is not financing basic R&D but refining an existing platform already validated with commercial logistics clients, which can shorten delivery timelines and reduce risk for government stakeholders.

The company is backed by defense-focused investors including 8VC, Silent Ventures, and Moonshots Capital, and it holds awardable status on the CDAO Tradewinds marketplace, enhancing its route to additional federal contracts. This capital base underpins ongoing development of Navigator’s adversary-aware sustainment simulation, which will let planners stress-test logistics plans against route denial, targeted supply nodes, and other disruptions.

Within the PORTAL effort, Navigator will address three core capabilities: predicting unit consumption based on mission profiles and operational tempo, recommending optimized routing and load plans that can incorporate autonomous resupply, and tracking logistics assets via a user-centric common operating picture. The platform is also engineered to operate in degraded communications environments, preserving planning and decision support when connectivity is limited or intermittent.

Under the Direct to Phase II contract, Gallatin AI will work directly with operational Army units to benchmark Navigator’s performance and refine the system through subject matter expert feedback, a process that could set the stage for broader adoption if results are positive. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in El Segundo, with offices in Washington, DC and Austin, Gallatin positions this award as a key milestone in its strategy to make joint logistics more predictive, visible, and accountable from production to point of need.