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659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ4642105 ↗
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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “659th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.