Battlefield surveillance brigades in the United States Army

The battlefield surveillance brigade (BfSB) was a United States Army surveillance/reconnaissance formation introduced from 2006 to 2015.

The United States Army planned for the creation and transformation of nine intelligence brigades to a 'battlefield surveillance' role in 2007.

[2] The United States Army is currently reorganizing these BfSB formations into expeditionary military intelligence brigades.

The units had the tools to respond to the commanders needs from unmanned aerial vehicles to signals gathering equipment and human intelligence collectors.

[3] One of the major initiatives of the modernization plan involves migrating the army from a division-centric force designed to fight one or two potential major-theater wars toward a modular, brigade-centric force that is expeditionary in nature and deployed continuously in different parts of the world.