The regiment, formed originally in 1947, provides field deployable geographic services, including geodetic survey, terrain analysis, information management and dissemination and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).

13 Squadron was assigned the role of map production which remains its core duties to this day.

[5][6] 14 Field Survey Squadron remained in Germany after the Second World War, and provided geographic support to the British Army on the Rhine.

[7] The engineers lived in Denison Barracks in Hermitage for many years until July 2014 when the regiment in moved to RAF Wyton as part of the Joint Forces Intelligence Group.

[9] On 10 November 2021 the regiment won Best Security, Defence or Law Enforcement IT Project of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards.