Photo by Staff Sgt. Madeline Herzog | Air Combat Command | 12.15.2025
A Distributed Ground System (DGS) sign marks the entrance to the 497th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2025. Analysis and exploitation teams demonstrate the Distributed Common Ground System enterprise’s ability to adapt and leverage technology, automation and critical thinking to make sense of the battlespace, ensuring......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Madeline Herzog | Air Combat Command | 12.15.2025
U.S. Air Force warfighters assigned to the 497th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group discuss the best method for delivering tailored intelligence products at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2025. Through the analysis and exploitation team construct, not only do Airmen collaborate with each other, but they are also empowered to use multiple data sources to complete......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Madeline Herzog | Air Combat Command | 12.15.2025
A U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class assigned to the 497th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group synthesizes information to support operations at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2025. Through the analysis and exploitation team construct within the Distributed Common Ground System enterprise, not only do Airmen collaborate with each other, but they are also empowered to......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Madeline Herzog | Air Combat Command | 12.15.2025
A U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. assigned to the 497th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group synthesizes information to support operations at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2025. Analysis and exploitation teams demonstrate the Distributed Common Ground System enterprise’s ability to adapt and leverage technology, automation and critical thinking to make sense of the......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Madeline Herzog | Air Combat Command | 12.15.2025
A U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to the 497th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group provides analytical support at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2025. The Distributed Common Ground System enterprise’s analysis and exploitation team construct is deliberately flexible, enforcing lethality by eliminating platform stovepipes, fusing space and multi-source data, and......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Madeline Herzog | Air Combat Command | 12.15.2025
A U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to the 497th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group delivers tailored intelligence products using the new analysis and exploitation team (AET) construct at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, Dec. 12, 2025. The AET model offers the ability to focus efforts on a “problem-set” versus a “product” which enables analysts to develop customized......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Darnell Cannady | 480th ISR Wing | 06.06.2019
U.S. Air Force Col. Max Pearson, 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing commander, passes the guidon to Col. Scott Vickery, during a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, June 6, 2019. Vickery assumed command of the 497th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group and will direct the operations of seven squadrons in a Total Force......
Photo by Tech. Sgt. Darnell Cannady | 480th ISR Wing | 08.22.2017
(From left to right) U.S. Air Force Capt. Michael Gorton, 497th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group head chaplain, Lt. Col. Alvi Azad, 497th ISRG surgeon general, Col. Kristofer Gifford, 497th ISRG commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Michelle Carter, 497th ISRG superintendent, cut the ribbon during the opening of the Airmen Resiliency Team’s Occupational Health Unit room at......
