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Mission Area Monitoring: Maintaining Maritime Operational Awareness
In Q2 2026, Windward recorded 3,137 prolonged dark activity events involving 2,157 unique cargo ships and tankers over 10,000 DWT, and 171,286 distinct vessels affected by GPS jamming at least once. None of those figures describe a list of vessels. They describe conditions inside specific stretches of water. That distinction is the operational problem of...
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From Pixels to Findings: How Image Analytics Changes What Satellite Imagery Can Tell You
Satellite imagery has always shown you what’s in a scene. Every dot, every wake, every hull is a detection. What it hasn’t done, until now, is tell you who that detection is, and whether you should care. That’s the gap Windward’s new Image Analytics closes. It’s made up of two capabilities released together: Vessel Correlation,...
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Introducing GPS Jamming Resilience: Cutting False Vessel Activity From Contested Waters
Windward is releasing GPS Jamming Resilience, a new platform capability that automatically identifies and suppresses the false vessel activity generated by GPS interference, before any of it reaches an analyst. It launches already proven. Since Operation Epic Fury began in late February, the capability has filtered more than 2.2 million false ship-to-ship (STS) meeting records...
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Ground Truth: Windward’s 2026 Commitment to Verified Maritime Intelligence
By Ariel Zibziner, VP Business Services, Windward Data Integrity in an Era of High-Frequency Signal Manipulation As we conclude 2025, the maritime domain is characterized by a trust deficit in digital signaling. The convergence of major global conflicts — continued hostilities in Ukraine, Houthi attacks disrupting Red Sea transit, suspected infrastructure sabotage in the Baltic,...
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Windward Launches WhatsApp Integration for Instant Risk Insights
At a Glance Redefining Vessel Screening for a Real-Time World In global trade and shipping, decisions are rarely made from behind a desk. A call from port control, a sudden request from a counterpart, or a time-sensitive deal can trigger the need for immediate screening. Whether it’s a compliance check to prevent sanctions breaches or...
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