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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is expected to host the 76th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron, which will improve and integrate intelligence capabilities that will enable comprehensive military advantage in space. 

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is expected to host the 76th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron, which will improve and integrate intelligence capabilities that will enable comprehensive military advantage in space.  (U.S. Space Force)

(Tribune News Service) — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will soon get a new space-focused ISR mission and 90 new personnel in the process, the Air Force said Wednesday.

Wright-Patterson is expected to host a new unit, the 76th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron, after an environmental impact analysis this summer, gaining about 90 new personnel, the Air Force said.

The squadron will improve and integrate intelligence capabilities with a focus on a "military advantage in space," the Air Force said.

The squadron will be expected to execute intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data across orbital regimes and terrestrial environments, fusing data from fielded sensors in a current and future space surveillance network to identify adversary capability, the Air Force said in a release.

The squadron will bring almost 90 additional personnel to Wright-Patterson and is expected to reach full operational capability in 2025.

The Air Force said its decision to host the 76th ISR Squadron at Wright-Patterson came after conducting a site survey.

This is a new unit, Air Force spokeswoman Sarah Fiocco told the Dayton Daily News.

Asked if the new squadron will involve a loss of personnel currently at Wright-Patterson, Fiocco said: "There currently will not be any mission losses as a result of this move or an exchange of personnel."

The move represents another space-focused mission at Wright-Patterson. In 2021, the U.S. Space Force said it was standing up the National Space Intelligence Center, or NSIC, to be co-located with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, or NASIC, at Wright-Patterson. The NSIC, also called "Space Delta 18," was officially activated in June 2022.

With some 35,000 military and civilian employees, Wright-Patterson is already the largest single-site employer in the state of Ohio.

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