480th Intelligence Wing

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unit_name= 480th Intelligence Wing


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dates= 1943-1944, 1985-Present
country= United States
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branch= United States Air Force
type= Intelligence
role= Combat Support
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command_structure= Air Force ISR Agency
current_commander= Colonel James R. Marrs
garrison= Langley Air Force Base
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motto= NON POTESTIS LATERE - You can’t hide
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decorations= The 480th Intelligence Wing (480 IW) is headquartered at Langley AFB, Virginia.

The Wing traces its history back to 1943 when it was formed as the 480th Antisubmarine Group. Inactivated in 1944, it was reestablished in 1985 as the 480th Special Operations Wing, but was never activated. The Wing was officially redesignated the 480 IW and reactivated on 1 December 2003. It was organized under Eighth Air Force, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, Virginia. On 14 January 2008, Air Force officials announced the transfer of the 480th Intelligence Wing from 8th Air Force under Air Combat Command to the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency. [ [http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123082936 Kristine Dreyer. "480th Intelligence Wing realigned." Air Force Link. 18 January 2008] ]

Mission

Air Force lead wing geospatial intelligence and intelligence products for combat mission planning and execution.

Personnel and Resources

The Wing employs over 2,300 personnel (1,510 military, 62 civilian and 266 contractors from 15 different vendors) performing in 52 Air Force specialties during day to day operations. When activated during periods of crisis, the Wing gains six Air National Guard (ANG) units and over 446 personnel from Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, and Nevada. The Wing manages and operates a $1.7 billion infrastructure including almost convert|500000|sqft|m2 of facilities located on three AF installations. Annual budget execution is approximately $32M for operations and maintenance plus another $3.2M in procurement.

Organization

*27th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
*497th Intelligence Group, Langley AFB, Virginia (???-Present)
**10th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
**30th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
*548th Intelligence Group, Beale AFB, California (???-Present)
**9th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
**13th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
**48th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
*692d Intelligence Group, Hickam AFB, Hawaii (2008-Present)
*693d Intelligence Group, Ramstein AB, Germany (2008-Present)
**24th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
**450th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
**485th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present)
*694th Intelligence Group, Osan AB, South Korea (2008-Present)
*117th Intelligence Squadron (???-Present) [ANG]
*123d Intelligence Squadron (???-Present) [ANG]

The 480 IW is headquartered at Langley AFB, Virginia and is composed of one direct reporting squadron (27th Intelligence Support Squadron) and two intelligence groups (IG) (497 IG, and 548 IG), each of which are assigned two or more squadrons. Currently, six ANG squadrons are gained when activated during periods of crisis (117th Intelligence Squadron, Birmingham Alabama, 123d Intelligence Squadron, Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, 152d Intelligence Squadron, Reno Nevada, and the 161st Intelligence Squadron, Wichita Kansas). Action is underway to convert two ANG units (234th Combat Communications Squadron, Hayward California and portions of the 192d Fighter Wing, Richmond, Virginia) to support DCGS operations at Beale and Langley AFBs.

The 27th Intelligence Support Squadron is assigned directly to the Wing and provides 480 IW, Combat Air Forces, and other DOD organizations with skilled warfighters and leading edge technologies to meet warfighter-specific requirements for campaign planning, targeting, combat assessment and real-time air tasking order execution. Provides worldwide users with information dominance through access to over 30 multi-source intelligence systems and databases. Tests and evaluates emerging information technologies and handles all aspects of the 480 IW security program.

497th Intelligence Group

The 497th Intelligence Group, Langley AFB, Virginia is assigned the 10th and 30th Intelligence Squadrons. The group is a warfighting unit leveraging the most robust national/DoD intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance air, space and ground systems architecture. Projects global vigilance, providing persistent world-class timely and tailored multi-discipline intelligence analysis to the warfighter while directing reachback/distributed operations.

548th Intelligence Group

The 548th Intelligence Group, located at Beale AFB, California is assigned the 9th, 13th, and 48th Intelligence Squadrons. The group operates Deployable Ground Station-2 and Deployable Shelterized System-Film (DSS-F) components. Includes exploitation and dissemination of near real time U-2, Global Hawk and Predator imagery and signals data to provide actionable, fused all-source intelligence to theater, joint/combined force and component commanders.

References

External links

* [http://www.acc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3391 480 IW Factsheet on the Public Website]