The United States Air Force's 659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group (659 ISRG) is an intelligence unit located at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.
Mission The mission of the 659 ISRG is to provide direct ISR support to the Sixteenth Air Force, which contributes to United States Cyber Command's mission. Squadron personnel focus on digital network exploitation analysis and digital network intelligence, and provide support to the National Security Agency.
History The Air Force activated the 770th ISR Group (P) as a provisional group in October 2009 to evaluate providing ISR support to the Twenty-Fourth Air Force. The 770th ISR Group (P) was inactivated with the activation of the 659 ISRG.
Assignments Major Command Air Combat Command (29 Sep 2014–present)
Numbered Air Force/Field Operating Agency Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (8 Sep 2010 – 28 Sep 2014) 25th Air Force (29 Sep 2014 – 10 Oct 2019)McCullough, Amy, "ISR Agency Becomes 25th Air Force", Air Force Magazine: Journal of the Air Force Association, November 2014, Volume 97 No. 11, p. 22 16th Air Force (11 Oct 2019 – present)
Wings/Groups 70th ISR Wing (8 Sep 2010 – present)
Squadrons assigned 5th Intelligence Squadron - Fort Gordon, GA 7th Intelligence Squadron - Fort George G. Meade, MD 35th Intelligence Squadron - Joint Base San Antonio-Lackand, TX 37th Intelligence Squadron - Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, HI
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Bases stationed Fort George G. Meade, MD (8 Sep 2010 – present)
References
External links Air Combat Command 25th Air Force 70th ISR Wing