Industry Solutions
Government & Defense
An independent, satellite-verified intelligence layer that supplements national systems with commercially available, globally persistent monitoring.
The Problem
The activity that matters is the activity that hides.
Contested waters are defined by vessels that do not announce themselves: dark fleets moving sanctioned cargo, naval activity that outpaces public reporting, and deceptive practices designed to defeat cooperative tracking. Missions that depend on self-reported signals inherit every one of those blind spots.
Theia provides persistent, commercially available coverage that stands on its own or supplements national capability: independent detection across broad areas, identity resolved against physical observation, and a historical record that supports retrospective investigation of any vessel that becomes of interest. For U.S. federal missions, SynMax maintains a dedicated federal capability page. Visit SynMax Federal.
Capabilities
Where Theia does the work.
Mission Workflows
How defense and intelligence teams use it.
01 / Watch
Indications & Warnings
Persistent watch across a defined AoI, measured against a pattern-of-life baseline. Departures surface as alerts: a vessel loitering where none should be, a dark transit through sensitive waters, an unexpected concentration of activity.
02 / Investigate
Dark-Target Investigation
A reporting gap defines a window and a search area. Imagery fills the window, attribution puts a name to the hull, and the vessel’s history reframes the silence as routine or significant.
03 / Interdict
Interdiction Support
The craft that matter most in enforcement and counternarcotics missions often never transmit at all. Attribute the larger vessels from imagery, build pattern of life around them, and cue collection onto the small craft and rendezvous behavior that would otherwise stay invisible.
04 / Assess
Force-Posture Monitoring
Naval activity assessed from commercial collection: presence, movement, and posture built from imagery and open sources, shareable in ways national systems often are not, including with allies and partners.
05 / Reconstruct
Retrospective Investigation
Because collection runs continuously rather than target by target, a vessel that becomes of interest today can be investigated backward through imagery already held.
Procurement & Deployment
Commercially available, mission-deployable.
SynMax capability is commercially available and built to deploy where the mission runs, with outputs published as structured observations, alerts, and data services into the systems your enterprise already operates.
- Awardable on CDAO Tradewinds: a streamlined procurement path for U.S. Department of Defense buyers
- Cloud, on-premise, and disconnected deployment profiles
- Outputs via APIs and standard geospatial formats into existing mission systems
- Commercial capability, shareable with allied and partner organizations
- Every observation carries imagery, measurable features, confidence, and full lineage
FAQ
Common questions.
Q1
Does this replace classified capability?
No. It is a commercial intelligence layer that supplements national systems with persistent, unclassified coverage, and it stands on its own for organizations without access to those systems.
Q2
Can outputs feed our existing systems?
Yes. Detections, alerts, and structured observations publish through APIs and standard geospatial formats, so answers arrive inside existing mission workflows rather than another pane of glass.
Q3
How is confidence handled?
Every observation carries its evidence: imagery, measurable features, a confidence assessment, and full lineage. Analysts can interrogate the basis of a finding, not just receive it.
Further Reading
From the resources library.
Get Started
See the picture your mission is missing.
Request a demonstration across your area of responsibility and see what persistent, satellite-verified monitoring reveals.