February 10, 2026
Enforcement Shock Accelerates Dark Fleet Reflagging to Russia
MIOC is a mission-critical operations center powered by Windward’s maritime intelligence experts, operating as a seamless extension of your teams. MIOC places elite tradecraft at your service, providing the intelligence that governments and enterprises need to protect assets, reduce risk, and maintain operational continuity.
Backed by 15 years of Maritime AI™ development and centuries of combined domain experience, your MIOC partners fuse agentic AI with multi-source intelligence to inform and accelerate your strategic, operational, and risk management decisions.
MIOC experts fuse physical surveillance (SAR/EO satellite), digital signals, commercial intelligence, and patented Maritime AI™ into a single operational picture — exposing dark fleets and hidden maneuvers that evade standard systems. We proactively hunt emerging evasion tactics before they become threats. We ingest proprietary sensors, integrate third-party feeds, and procure mission-critical data on demand. Complete coverage. No compromises.
Agentic AI acts as a SOAR layer, automatically orchestrating investigations — cross-referencing ownership networks, vetting cargo histories, and flagging deceptive patterns — before your team wastes time chasing false leads. Cut Mean Time to Decision (MTTD) by 80% and focus analysts where they matter most.
Whether you need real-time border monitoring, rapid forensic investigation, or embedded analysts for a high stakes operation, MIOC operates as a seamless extension of customer teams, adapting to your operational needs. Remote, on-site, or hybrid – your mission defines the engagement.
Detect hidden and high-risk activity for defense and critical infrastructure protection. Monitor subsea cables for “dark surveying,” loitering, and maneuvers consistent with sabotage or gray-zone interference.
Shield your supply chain from reputational toxicity and ethical breaches. Identify fleets linked to forced labor, human rights abuses, illegal transshipments, and IUU fishing, while receiving real-time “Go/No-Go” recommendations for high-risk transits.
Expose sanctions evasion through a tiered spectrum of maritime diligence. Move from automated Red Flag Reviews (Level 1) to deep-dive UBO discovery (Level 2) and forensic reputational investigations (Level 3) that validate the standing of maritime counterparties.
Secure evidence-grade reconstruction and liability attribution for legal and claims processes. Determine ground-truth for collisions involving Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) and identify the true beneficial owners behind “ghost ships” involved in fraud or pollution.
See what the naked eye cannot by utilizing SAR to identify oil slicks via sea surface “dampening effects”. Trace pollution back to its exact point of origin with atmospheric and oceanographic modeling to provide irrefutable evidence of the polluter.
What is the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center (MIOC)?
MIOC is a mission-ready maritime intelligence operations center and managed intelligence service staffed by Windward analysts and engineers. It delivers continuous monitoring, rapid investigations, and intelligence reporting by combining Maritime AI™, multi-source intelligence, and human expertise to support strategic, operational, and risk-driven decisions.
Who is the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center designed for?
MIOC supports government agencies, defense and security organizations, infrastructure operators, financial institutions, insurers, and global enterprises that require professional maritime intelligence services without building or scaling an in-house intelligence operation.
What types of missions does the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center support?
MIOC supports a wide range of missions through ongoing monitoring and investigative services, including defense and critical infrastructure protection, sanctions and compliance enforcement, dark vessel and commodity flow detection, supply chain ethics and forced labor investigations, legal and insurance forensics, and environmental intelligence such as oil spill attribution.
What engagement models are available with the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center?
MIOC offers flexible engagement models to match different operational needs. Organizations can work with MIOC through an ongoing subscription for continuous monitoring and alerting, request ad-hoc deep dive investigations for forensic analysis or due diligence, or embed a retained Windward analyst directly into their operations for sustained, mission-aligned intelligence support.
How does the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center operate day to day?
MIOC analysts continuously monitor defined assets, regions, entities, or risk themes on behalf of the customer. When anomalies, incidents, or emerging risks are identified, the team conducts analyst-led investigations, validates findings across multiple intelligence sources, and delivers clear intelligence outputs – alerts, reports, or briefings – tailored to operational or decision-making workflows.
What intelligence sources does the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center use?
MIOC fuses patented Maritime AI™ with multi-source intelligence, including AIS, SAR, and EO satellite imagery, RF and ADINT signals, commercial and proprietary data feeds, OSINT, and client-provided sensors or datasets. Analysts cross-validate sources and curate findings, exposing dark activity, deception, and hidden patterns that evade single-source systems.
How does Agentic AI factor into the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center operations?
Agentic AI functions as an orchestration layer, automatically triggering investigative workflows – correlating ownership networks, cargo histories, behavioral anomalies, and historical patterns – to support analyst workflows rather than replace them. This reduces noise, accelerates prioritization, and allows analysts to focus on high-confidence, high-impact leads.
What differentiates the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center from standard maritime monitoring platforms?
Unlike platforms that deliver raw alerts or static dashboards, MIOC delivers intelligence as a service. Dedicated Windward analysts conduct continuous monitoring, investigative analysis, and mission-specific reporting, establish pattern-of-life baselines, investigate unknown risks, and adapt detection logic as adversaries evolve. AI accelerates analysis, and humans drive judgment, recommendations, and follow-through.
Can the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center integrate with existing systems and workflows?
MIOC operates as your dedicated maritime intelligence service partner, aligning with your workflows, decision cycles, and mission requirements. Rather than functioning as a standalone system, the MIOC team works as a seamless extension of your organization, executing monitoring, investigations, reporting, and escalation according to your internal processes. Intelligence outputs – whether briefings, reports, watchlist updates, or structured data feeds – are delivered in the format, cadence, and channels that fit your operational environment, ensuring continuity without disruption.
How does the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center support legal, insurance, and claims processes?
MIOC delivers evidence-grade intelligence, including incident reconstruction, behavioral timelines, ownership attribution, and imagery-backed findings. These outputs are designed to support litigation, insurance claims, regulatory inquiries, and arbitration processes.
Is the Maritime Intelligence Operations Center a replacement for in-house intelligence teams?
MIOC is designed to deliver the level of intelligence services your organization requires, whether that means augmenting an existing expert team or providing fully managed maritime intelligence capabilities. For organizations with in-house analysts, MIOC can support ad-hoc investigations, surge capacity during crises, specialized forensic analysis, or continuous monitoring aligned to specific missions. For organizations without dedicated intelligence resources, MIOC can provide end-to-end monitoring, reporting, and investigative services tailored to operational and risk priorities. Every engagement is configured to your structure, expertise level, and mission needs, ensuring the right balance between internal ownership and external support.
What coverage areas does MIOC support?
MIOC provides global maritime coverage with a deep focus on strategic choke points, contested waters, and critical infrastructure zones. Coverage can be tailored to specific regions, fleets, or assets based on mission requirements, with rapid expansion capabilities for emerging operational needs.
