Tagup Names Lieutenant General David A. Ottignon to Defense Advisory Board

Former Commanding General of II Marine Expeditionary Force brings decades of leadership across expeditionary, joint, and logistics operations to help scale AI-powered decision advantage for defense sustainment

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tagup, a defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation artificial intelligence, today announced the appointment of Lieutenant General David A. Ottignon (U.S. Marine Corps, retired) to its Defense Advisory Board.

LtGen Ottignon joins Tagup at a time of growing demand for advanced logistics decision-making capabilities across the Department of War. His extensive experience across expeditionary command, joint operations, and logistics will help guide the company as it scales AI-powered logistics optimization for military forces, including those operating in contested and resource-constrained environments.

The appointment builds on Tagup’s expanding work with the U.S. Marine Corps, including deployments with a medical logistics unit and Marine Aircraft Group 39. Through its Manifest® platform, Tagup helps commanders and logisticians wargame logistics courses of action and adapt plans at the speed modern operations demand.

"LtGen Ottignon has owned readiness from both sides: as the logistician who drives it and the commander who turns it into combat power," said Jon Garrity, CEO of Tagup. "For the first time, commanders can plan maneuver and sustainment together dynamically. LtGen Ottignon has the experience and perspective to help us lead that shift."

LtGen Ottignon retired after 37 years of distinguished service in the U.S. Marine Corps. His final assignment was as Commanding General of II Marine Expeditionary Force, where he led more than 40,000 Marines and Sailors and directed a multinational NATO exercise in Scandinavia involving over 22,000 U.S. and NATO personnel. Throughout his career, he held senior positions spanning logistics, manpower, and joint operations, including Commanding General of 1st Marine Logistics Group, Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Inspector General of the Marine Corps, and Deputy Operations Director of U.S. European Command. LtGen Ottignon’s deployments included peacekeeping operations in Somalia (Operation Restore Hope), counterinsurgency operations in the southern Philippines (Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines), and combat operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom).

"The future fight will test every assumption about how we position materiel, maintain equipment, allocate people, and sustain operations under disruption,” said LtGen Ottignon. "Tagup is building the decision engine commanders and logisticians need for that environment: software that can reason through constraints, quantify tradeoffs, and help leaders keep the force ready when conditions change. I am proud to join the Defense Advisory Board and support that mission.”

LtGen Ottignon joins a distinguished Defense Advisory Board of retired flag officers across the services who have commanded, modernized, and sustained forces at the highest levels. The board provides strategic guidance that keeps Manifest grounded in operational reality and aligned with the demands of modern warfare.

About Tagup

Tagup is a defense technology company founded at MIT that is delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI. The company’s platform, Manifest, is an AI-powered multidimensional logistics decision engine that simulates and optimizes logistics courses of action under constraints and uncertainty, delivering a decisive operational advantage in contested and degraded environments. A trusted partner of the U.S. military, Tagup supports logistics operations across supply, maintenance and mobilization, including active deployments with aviation and medical logistics units. For more information on Tagup’s AI-powered logistics solutions or to request a demo of Manifest, email [e-mail] today.