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Windward delivers automated target generation and early detection for national security missions, helping agencies identify threats, investigate faster, and stay ahead of maritime threats before they escalate.
Modern maritime threats are covert, adaptive, and designed to blend in. Finding them takes more than monitoring. It takes intelligence that can surface what matters, connect the dots, and move investigations faster.
Windward Maritime AI™ provides:
Detect behavioral anomalies before they become threats. Windward surfaces early indicators across the maritime domain, giving you visibility into activity that impacts national security, regional stability, and global trade.
Accelerate the intelligence cycle with automated, high-quality lead generation. Windward identifies anomalies and trend shifts in near real time, surfacing targets tied to geopolitical developments, military activity, or strategic disruption.
Move from lead to insight in one unified workspace. Advanced analytical tools support the full investigation lifecycle, helping analysts explore connections, assess patterns, and generate reports that drive operational and strategic decisions.
Scale intelligence operations with automated workflows that deliver contextualized risk assessments, explainable insights, and enriched anomaly analysis. A virtual analyst supports tipping and cueing, vessel screening, and prioritization, making complex maritime intelligence accessible to experts and non-experts alike.
Windward’s Advanced Intelligence solution supports defense and intelligence missions with early detection of emerging threats in critical maritime areas. It identifies anomalous behavior, trend shifts, and hidden networks, helping analysts generate leads, assess intent, and move faster from discovery to operational insight.
Windward’s Remote Sensing Intelligence solution fuses multi-sensor coverage (EO, SAR, and RF), AI-powered detections, in-app tasking, and a fully integrated investigation workflow. By delivering actionable visual insights to government, security, and compliance teams, it provides a decisive operational edge – enhancing maritime operations with speed, precision, and proof.
How does Windward’s Advanced Intelligence solution support national security missions?
Windward provides real-time, AI-powered maritime intelligence to help defense and intelligence agencies detect, assess, and respond to emerging threats. By combining behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and predictive models, it enables faster situational awareness, mission planning, and decision-making across global maritime domains.
Can Windward identify unknown or emerging threats without user input?
Yes. Windward’s Advanced Intelligence automatically generates leads and detects unknown targets using behavioral patterns and predictive modeling, with no manual input required. This allows analysts to uncover emerging threats or covert operations before they’re visible to traditional systems.
Can Windward detect potential disruptions or threats before they impact national security operations?
Absolutely. Windward’s Early Detection capabilities flag anomalies and behavioral shifts that may indicate evolving threats, from sanctions evasion to hostile activity, giving defense teams the time and context to act before risks escalate.
What makes Windward’s anomaly detection different from other intelligence tools?
Windward’s anomaly detection is powered by proprietary maritime behavioral models trained on over a decade of real-world data. Unlike static or rule-based systems, it learns from context, factoring vessel intent, historical trends, and global patterns to identify genuine anomalies, not noise.
How does Windward help prioritize targets across large maritime regions?
Windward’s AI automatically ranks vessels by behavioral risk and relevance to mission objectives. Visual Link Analysis connects entities, voyages, and ownership networks, helping analysts focus on the highest-priority threats and allocate surveillance or interdiction resources efficiently.
How does MAI Expert™ assist intelligence analysts?
MAI Expert™ acts as a Gen AI analyst embedded in the platform, instantly summarizing vessel behavior, risk exposure, and potential intent. It delivers clear, explainable insights, allowing intelligence officers to focus on strategic interpretation instead of manual data processing.
Can Windward integrate with multi-source intelligence platforms?
Yes. Windward’s API and data services integrate seamlessly into existing C4ISR, GEOINT, or fusion centers, combining behavioral analytics with other intelligence streams such as imagery, OSINT, and HUMINT for a unified operational picture.
Does Windward support secure collaboration across agencies?
Windward enables secure intelligence-sharing through configurable access controls, encrypted data environments, and shared operational workspaces, ensuring agencies can collaborate while maintaining data sovereignty and mission confidentiality.
Can Windward help detect critical maritime infrastructure sabotage attempts?
Yes. Windward’s Maritime Infrastructure Protection solution detects suspicious behavior near undersea cables, pipelines, and offshore facilities. By analyzing vessel patterns and proximity anomalies, it helps defense teams identify and investigate potential sabotage early.
How does Windward support rapid decision-making in dynamic maritime threat environments?
Windward provides real-time alerts, contextual explanations, and Gen AI-assisted insights to support time-critical operations. Its mobile and API-ready design ensures analysts and field units receive verified intelligence instantly, empowering confident, coordinated action at the speed of the mission.
