The Tactical Intelligence Brigade (Italian: Brigata Informazioni Tattiche) is the Italian Army's Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) & Electronic Warfare (EW) unit.
[1] The brigade's origins lie with the Electronic Defense Center (Centro Difesa Elettronica - CDE) raised in 1963 in Anzio.
[3][4][1] With the end of the Cold War the army reduced its forces in the Northeast of Italy and so on 1 January 1996 the center received the 33rd Electronic Warfare Battalion "Falzarego" in Treviso from the 5th Army Corps.
[5] On 19 May 1998 the center was reorganized and renamed RISTA-EW Grouping and the 8th Signals Intelligence Battalion "Tonale" was diasbanded.
On 28 June 2005 the 13th Battalion "Aquileia" in Anzio was raised and joined the brigade as its Human Intelligence (HUMINT) unit.