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.
[1][3] The 116th MI Brigade was constituted 10 May 1946, as the 116th Counterintelligence Corps Detachment.
It was later redesignated in February 1999, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 116th Military Intelligence Group and activated 16 June 2000, at Fort Gordon (now known as Fort Eisenhower), Georgia.
The US Army approved the establishment of an aerial intelligence brigade and designated the 116th to fulfill the mission.
According to the US Army, the 116th MI Brigade will continue to grow in the coming years.