Mission Statement: The 116th MI Brigade conducts 24/7 tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, dissemination and feedback operations of multiple organic and Joint aerial-intelligence
surveillance and reconnaissance (A-ISR) missions collected in overseas contingency areas of operation.
The 116th Military Intelligence Brigade was constituted May 10, 1946, as the 116th Counter
Intelligence Corps Detachment. It was activated May 31, 1946, in Washington, D.C. The
unit was allotted to the regular army on March 5, 1951. In 1959, it was redesignated as the
116th Counter Intelligence Corps Group, redesignated as the 116th Intelligence Corps
Group in 1961, and then redesignated as the 116th Military Intelligence Group in October
1966. On January 9, 1973, the unit was deactivated in Washington, D.C. It was later
redesignated in February 1999, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 116th
Military Intelligence Group and activated June 16, 2000, at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The 116th
was deactivated again Sept. 30, 2009.
In August 2014, the designation Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 116th Military
Intelligence Brigade was reserved for activation Oct. 15, 2015. The Army approved the
establishment of an Aerial Intelligence Brigade and designated the 116th to fulfill the
mission. The brigade's mission is to conduct 24/7 tasking, collection, processing,
exploitation, dissemination and feedback operations of multiple organic and Joint A-ISR and
reconnaissance missions collected in overseas contingency areas of operation.
The 116th Military Intelligence Brigade is comprised of the following battalions that conduct
Aerial Exploitation (AE) and Aerial Reconnaissance (AR) worldwide, missions of Aerial
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Target Acquisition Operations: the
Processing Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) Battalion out of Fort Gordon, GA with the
geographically separated Army Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS)
138th Military Intelligence Company out of Warner Robins Airforce Base, GA, the 15th Military
Intelligence Battalion (AE) out of Fort Hood, TX, 204th Military Intelligence Battalion
(AR) out of Fort Bliss, TX, 206th Military Intelligence Battalion (AE) out of Fort Hood, TX, and
the 224th Military Intelligence Battalion (AE) out of Hunter Army Airfield, GA.
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