116th Military Intelligence Brigade
U.S. Army brigade
The 116th Military Intelligence Brigade (Aerial Intelligence) (116th MIB) is an intelligence brigade in the U.S. Army charged with conducting 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.
History
The 116th MI Brigade was constituted 10 May 1946, as the 116th Counterintelligence Corps Detachment. It was activated 31 May 1946, in Washington, DC. The unit was allotted to the regular army on 5 March 1951. In 1959, it was redesignated as the 116th Counterintelligence Corps Group, redesignated as the 116th Intelligence Corps Group in 1961, and then redesignated as the 116th Military Intelligence Group in October 1966. On 9 January 1973, the unit was deactivated in Washington, DC. It was later redesignated in February 1999, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 116th Military Intelligence Group and activated 16 June 2000, at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The 116th was deactivated again 30 Sept. 2009.
In August 2014, the designation Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 116th Military Intelligence Brigade was reserved for activation 15 Oct. 2015. The US Army approved the establishment of an aerial intelligence brigade and designated the 116th to fulfill the mission.
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