Salesforce - Military Domain Audit

Audit phase: Military Audit | Prepared from research memo evidence only | Date of drafting: 2026-07-18

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

In 2026 the U.S. Army awarded Salesforce a $5.6 billion contract that Salesforce describes as intended to “accelerate military modernization and Department of War readiness” ¹. No public evidence identified of any contract, tender, or memorandum of understanding between Salesforce and Israel’s Ministry of Defence, the IDF, the Israel Prison Service, or the Israel Border Police. Salesforce does have a documented commercial relationship with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs - a civilian body - through reseller/implementation partner AllCloud, which built an “Emergency Event Management System” for citizen inquiries and a “Resources Plus” cloud asset-management system connecting all 108 Israeli diplomatic missions, with AllCloud’s case study stating the platform enabled MOFA to deliver “real-time aid” to Israelis during the June 2025 “Rising Lion” military campaign against Iran ²³. AllCloud was separately named Salesforce’s 2024 Partner of the Year and Project of the Year for Israel ⁴. Salesforce’s Hyperforce cloud-infrastructure platform became locally available in Israel in September 2024 as its 17th global region, running initially on AWS infrastructure, with Salesforce materials stating this allows “sensitive data from government entities and regulated companies to remain within Israel”; prior to this launch, Israeli customer data was hosted at Salesforce’s Frankfurt facility ⁵⁶⁷⁸. No specific Israeli government agency, and no defence or security agency, is named as a Hyperforce Israel customer in the sources reviewed. An early claim linking Hyperforce Israel to “Project Nimbus” (the $1.2 billion Google/Amazon Israeli government cloud contract signed in 2021) was not corroborated by independent secondary coverage of the Hyperforce launch, and Project Nimbus is documented elsewhere as a Google/Amazon-specific contract with no identified Salesforce role ⁹¹⁰. No public evidence identified of Salesforce appearing in SIBAT’s Defense and HLS Directory or any other Israeli Ministry of Defence-run defence trade directory ¹¹¹². Salesforce entered the Israeli market in 2011 via acquisition of Navajo Systems and has since acquired multiple Israeli companies, including BlueTail, Kernesen, Implisit, Datorama, Bonobo, ClickSoftware, Zoomin, and Own (for $1.9 billion); all are commercial/enterprise software firms, and no defence-sector target companies have been identified among these acquisitions ¹³. Salesforce’s own engineering blog has published employee career-journey profiles titled “From 8200 to Salesforce,” describing veterans of Israeli military intelligence unit 8200 who moved into roles at the company ¹⁴. SEC filings list salesforce.com Israel Ltd. among Salesforce’s corporate subsidiaries ¹⁵. Israeli firm Asperii is documented as an official Salesforce reseller in Israel ¹⁶.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

No public evidence identified that Salesforce manufactures or markets ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, or defence-grade variants of any product; its core offering is general-purpose CRM and cloud enterprise software. No public evidence identified of export licence applications, end-user certificates, or government export-control reviews specific to Salesforce sales to Israeli defence or security end-users.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified of Salesforce equipment, vehicles, or machinery linked to settlement construction, demolition, the separation barrier, or military installations. Sources reviewed for this question - Who Profits’ reporting on IBM’s Israel security-apparatus relationships, PAX’s June 2024 study of companies arming Israel and their financiers, Al-Haq’s business and human rights advocacy materials, and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre reporting on the Palestinian tech sector - discuss other companies (including IBM, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon) but do not name Salesforce in this context ^17181920. No public evidence identified of Salesforce offices, resellers, or franchisees located within West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements; the identified Israeli reseller Asperii is not documented as settlement-based ¹⁶.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Salesforce supplying components, sub-systems, or manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, or Israel Military Industries. No public evidence identified of Salesforce appearing as a disclosed CRM or cloud-services customer of these primes, nor of any joint development, co-production, or technology-transfer agreement between Salesforce and an Israeli defence firm.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Salesforce service contracts - catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities, or telecom - supporting IDF bases, training facilities, detention centres, or security installations. The one identified Israeli government-services relationship, the MOFA “Resources Plus” asset-management and emergency-response platform built with AllCloud on the Salesforce platform, is civilian-diplomatic in nature, covering citizen emergency response and connectivity across 108 diplomatic missions worldwide, and is not documented as extending to West Bank, Golan Heights, or Negev military or security installations ². No public evidence identified of shipping, freight, or port-handling contracts involving Salesforce and Israeli military cargo or arms shipments.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of Salesforce acting as prime contractor, licensed manufacturer, or component supplier for any lethal platform, munitions, or strategic defence system - including Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, fighter aircraft, tanks, or warships - supplied to Israeli forces. Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce’s wholly owned corporate venture-capital arm, explicitly categorizes three portfolio companies under a “Defense” heading in its “2025 Year in Review”: OneBrief, a military operational-planning and collaboration platform in active use by the U.S. Joint Staff and Combatant Commands; Forterra, an autonomous military ground-vehicle platform reported capable of carrying items including missiles and computing hardware; and Second Front Systems, a DevSecOps platform for authorizing and deploying software on classified U.S. government networks ^21222324. Salesforce Ventures participated in Forterra’s $238 million Series C financing, which closed around November 2025 at a valuation exceeding $1 billion, alongside investors including Moore Strategic Ventures and Franklin Templeton, and reporting describes Forterra’s driverless military vehicle as able to haul roughly 2,000 pounds into the field ²⁵²⁶. These Salesforce Ventures defense investments are U.S. Department of Defense-focused; No public evidence identified connecting OneBrief, Forterra, or Second Front Systems to Israel, the IDF, or Israeli end-users. Separately, Salesforce Ventures ran a $125 million Europe/Israel enterprise-cloud startup fund announced in May 2019 covering commercial-sector investments (retail, financial services, CPG, public sector); no defence or security portfolio companies have been identified from that specific fund ²⁷.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of any government decision to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke an export licence for Salesforce products to an Israeli military or security end-user, in any jurisdiction. No public evidence identified of arms-embargo or sanctions-compliance investigations or enforcement actions against Salesforce related to Israel defence trade. No public evidence identified of court proceedings or judicial review specifically concerning a Salesforce defence-supply relationship with Israel. Salesforce does not appear in the OHCHR Database of Business Enterprises maintained under Human Rights Council resolutions 31/36 and 53/25, per a search of the published dataset ²⁸²⁹. Salesforce is not among the roughly 48 corporate actors named in UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s July 2025 report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide,” a list that includes Microsoft, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, IBM, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Leonardo, Elbit Systems, and Caterpillar, among others ³⁰³¹. Salesforce is named once in Who Profits’ December 2021 report on IBM, listed only as a generic corporate “partner” of IBM alongside Adobe, Apple, AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, SAP, and Workday, with no elaboration of any Israel-specific relationship ¹⁷. AFSC Investigate maintains a dedicated company page for Salesforce documenting a U.S. Customs and Border Protection CRM contract (built by Deloitte, with cumulative spend of $148.5 million from 2018 through July 2024 across 52 U.S. federal agency cloud authorizations); these concerns relate to U.S. immigration enforcement rather than Israel ³². PAX’s June 2024 report on companies arming Israel focuses on six arms producers and does not name Salesforce ¹⁸.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

Salesforce is listed as a member-affiliated company within the Tech Divestment Network, a worker-led coalition drawing employees and organizers from Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce that campaigns for tech-sector divestment from military-industrial and Israel-related contracts ³³. In June 2018, more than 650 Salesforce employees signed an internal petition demanding cancellation of Salesforce’s March 2018 contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, citing family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border; this predates and is unrelated to Israel/Gaza but stands as documented precedent for employee activism against Salesforce government contracts ³⁴. The CBP contract was reportedly not cancelled, and AFSC Investigate records CBP spending with Salesforce continuing through at least July 2024 ³⁴³². Salesforce issued an official statement in October 2023 acknowledging the October 7 attacks and the “escalating war between Israel and Hamas,” expanded its “CAREforce Hardship Relief” fund to cover extended family affected by the war, and donated $3 million split between United Hatzalah, Save the Children, and The Association for Immediate Help for Holocaust Survivors ³⁵³⁶. In a 30 June 2024 interview, Meir Amiel, EVP & CTO of C360 Applications at Salesforce, stated that the company “leave[s] politics out of the company” while discussing Israel’s continued status as a strategic R&D hub for Salesforce, with roughly 750–900 employees across Tel Aviv and Nazareth centers ³⁷. Semafor’s October 2023 survey of CEO public statements on Israel and Gaza noted Salesforce/Benioff among companies offering comparatively limited public political commentary ³⁸. No public evidence identified of any organized boycott or divestment campaign, or institutional pension- or sovereign-wealth-fund divestment decision, specifically targeting Salesforce’s defence-sector activities as distinct from its general Israel presence.

Controlling principals. Colin Powell - former U.S. National Security Advisor, Commander of U.S. Army Forces Command, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 65th U.S. Secretary of State - served on Salesforce’s Board of Directors from 2014 until his death in October 2021 ³⁹⁴⁰. No Israel-specific military or defence connection for Powell was identified beyond his general U.S. national-security career. No public evidence identified connecting any current Salesforce board member to a named Defense Business Board seat, an Israeli defence-industry directorship, FIDF/reservist-fund donations, or equity holdings in Israeli defence primes. Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s Chair and CEO, publicly supported United Hatzalah and Save the Children following the October 7, 2023 attacks, consistent with the recipients of the company’s donation announced the same period ³⁵³⁶; No public evidence identified of Benioff donating to the IDF, FIDF, or Israeli defence-industry vehicles specifically. Benioff’s October 2025 comments supporting potential U.S. National Guard deployment in San Francisco - a domestic, non-Israel matter - triggered the resignation of Salesforce Foundation board member Ron Conway ⁴¹⁴². Theo Williams, described as a former head of strategic investments at Salesforce, is named as a strategic partner of Stratos Ventures, a US-Israeli defense-tech venture fund formed in 2026 that has raised more than $50 million and targets 15–20 early-stage Israeli defense, resilience, homeland-security, and critical-infrastructure startups; his role is described as advisory rather than as a current Salesforce executive ⁴³⁴⁴⁴⁵.

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