548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group
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The United States Air Force
's 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group (548th ISRG) is an intelligence unit located at Beale AFB, California.
, MQ-1, MQ-9 and RQ-4 aircraft and other platforms as required.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
's 548th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group (548th ISRG) is an intelligence unit located at Beale AFB, California.
Mission
The mission of the 548 ISRG is to operate and maintain a $1B AN/GSQ-272 "Sentinel" weapon system (also known as Distributed Ground Station or DGS), and provide combatant commanders with processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) of actionable intelligence data collected by U-2Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, very high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency . It provides day and night, very high-altitude , all-weather intelligence gathering...
, MQ-1, MQ-9 and RQ-4 aircraft and other platforms as required.
Major Command/Field Operating Agency
- Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (8 Jun 2007 – present)
- Air Intelligence Agency (1 Oct 1993 – 8 Jun 2007)
- Air Force Intelligence Command (1 Oct 1991 – 1 Oct 1993)
- Electronic Security Command (1 Aug 1979 – 1 Oct 1991)
- Air Force Security Service (20 Oct 1948 – 1 Aug 1979)
Squadrons assigned
- 9th Intelligence Squadron9th Intelligence SquadronThe United States Air Force's 9th Intelligence Squadron is an intelligence unit located at Beale AFB, California. The 9 IS is associated with U-2 and Distributed Common Ground System operations.-Mission:...
(???-Present) - 13th Intelligence Squadron13th Intelligence SquadronThe 13th Intelligence Squadron is part of the 548th Intelligence Group at Beale Air Force Base. It is one of the exploitation units for the Lockheed U2 , MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft conducting reconnaissance and...
(???-Present) - 48th Intelligence Squadron48th Intelligence SquadronThe United States Air Force's 48th Intelligence Squadron is an intelligence unit located at Beale AFB, California. The 48 IS is associated with U-2 operations.-Mission:...
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