Your mission, our expertise.
Grounded in logistics, the Rigid Tactical Maritime Division sources, configures, and supports vessels to enable sustainment, training, and discreet operational requirements worldwide. Each platform is operated by civilian mariners selected and vetted to align with the mission profile. Oversight is provided by former Naval Special Warfare (NSW) members and military mariners who bring operational experience into planning and coordination. This structure combines the adaptability of commercial platforms with the assurance of experienced leadership.
Global Maritime Logistics
Rigid Tactical supports the movement of equipment, vehicles, fuel, and personnel across oceans, between dispersed ports, and into areas where infrastructure is limited. Platforms are prepared prior to tasking with configurations for containerized cargo, heavy lift support, and modular mission packages, with endurance to remain offshore for extended periods. Where appropriate, vessels may be adapted to align with Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS), Joint Petroleum Over the Shore (JPOTS), or underway replenishment concepts. A key advantage of our approach is flexibility. Units guide the schedule, choosing when and where the vessel moves, influencing routes, adjusting port calls, and prioritizing cargo or personnel. This level of input provides commanders direct influence over maritime movement that is rarely available through traditional channels.
Discreet Maritime Access
Some requirements benefit from platforms that present as commercial traffic while supporting operational tasks normally associated with military vessels. These ships may be configured to stage small craft, enable aviation operations where certified, and conduct at-sea personnel or cargo transfers. They can support Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) evolutions, counterterrorism scenarios, or amphibious operations staged offshore. Secure planning environments may also be incorporated for classified work when required. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and passive collection systems can be integrated when required. As with logistics operations, units determine how these vessels are employed, shaping timing, staging, and mission priorities to fit operational requirements.
Training Solutions
Rigid Tactical provides vessels that replicate the conditions of live operations. Platforms can be arranged for full access, enabling boarding, clearing, and searching across all compartments. Training evolutions may include small-boat approaches, helicopter insertions, and at-sea transfer drills. Liaison officers manage the interface between training units and civilian crews, keeping exercises focused and efficient. Training schedules and scenarios are built around client requirements. Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS), counterterrorism, and amphibious profiles can be rehearsed in detail, with role players, effects, and scenario integration used to replicate operational conditions.
Offshore Staging and Persistent Presence
Large vessels may be structured as afloat staging bases or floating forward operating bases (FOBs). These platforms support embarked personnel, command-and-control (C2) elements, and specialized equipment for extended durations at sea. Options include secure communications networks, ISR integration, unmanned aerial system (UAS) launch and recovery, and rotary-wing support where certified. Units shape how these platforms are used. Priorities for embarkation, offshore positioning, mission timing, and support functions are set by the client, ensuring the vessel operates in direct support of their requirements.
Specialized Vessels
Different missions call for different hulls. Rigid Tactical maintains access to ferries, offshore workboats, motor yachts, and sailing vessels. Selection is driven by the operating area and task, whether extended range, shallow-draft coastal access, or a discreet silhouette suited to congested waterways. Each vessel is vetted, surveyed, and aligned with the mission before tasking.
Planning and Integration
Support does not end at vessel sourcing. Rigid Tactical integrates with planning staffs and logistics cells to align maritime assets with operational design. This includes route planning, port coordination, customs and crew documentation, and detailed load plans and deck diagrams. Concepts are developed with attention to JLOTS, JPOTS, underway replenishment, and other sustainment methods, ensuring compatibility with joint frameworks. Because clients are involved from the start, they guide how vessels are employed, influencing movement timelines, port calls, and support functions throughout the planning cycle.
Operating in Maritime Theaters
The Indo-Pacific demonstrates why maritime solutions matter. It is a theater defined by water, distance, and dispersed operating areas. Logistics, sustainment, and discreet access rely on vessels with range, endurance, and adaptability to deliver where infrastructure is limited or contested. Rigid Tactical applies the same approach globally. The Pacific highlights the challenge, and the solution, of platforms that move equipment between islands, stage offshore when ports are unavailable, and extend reach across vast distances. These methods also apply in Europe, the Middle East, and any theater where maritime reach is the decisive factor.
Why Rigid
Your mission, our expertise. Civilian crews are vetted to meet mission requirements. Oversight is provided by former NSW members and military mariners who bring operational knowledge into every charter. Platforms are surveyed, configured, and prepared before departure. Units drive how those platforms are used, selecting destinations, shaping routes, adjusting schedules, and prioritizing support. Capabilities include global logistics and sustainment across theaters, discreet access and contested movement using civilian platforms, VBSS, counter-terrorism, and amphibious training scenarios, offshore staging, afloat FOBs, ISR integration, and C2 elements, secure planning spaces, offshore housing, and VIP transport, and client-driven flexibility that provides direct influence over scheduling, routing, and mission priorities without added administrative burden. Rigid Tactical delivers more than vessels. We deliver maritime solutions aligned to the mission, structured to perform in the environments where they are most needed.
Recent Maritime Operations
Since March 2024, Rigid Tactical has maintained current and sustained military charter operations throughout INDOPACOM, executing over two dozen missions across numerous countries and diverse port environments. Operations have supported a wide range of mission types, including named operations, critical logistics movements, dive support operations, HAZMAT relocation and several diverse training missions, significantly enhancing surface lift capacity and operational flexibility in a theater defined by distance, dispersion, and limited infrastructure.