# Military Intelligence Readiness Command **Entity class:** United States Army Reserve functional command **Domain:** Military intelligence / reserve forces / national intelligence support **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The **Military Intelligence Readiness Command (MIRC)** is the United States Army Reserve's functional military-intelligence command, headquartered at [[wiki/Fort Belvoir|Fort Belvoir]], Virginia. Formed in 2005, it provides trained, equipped and ready intelligence soldiers, units and mission-tailored teams to combatant commands and the national [[wiki/Intelligence Community|Intelligence Community]]. The Army Reserve reports that MIRC comprises **more than 7,300 soldiers in more than 40 units across the continental United States, Hawaii and Europe**. Its mission set includes [[wiki/Signals Intelligence|signals intelligence]], strategic intelligence, [[wiki/Counterintelligence|counterintelligence]], [[wiki/Human Intelligence|human intelligence]], technical intelligence and collection operations. Since its formation, it has deployed approximately 6,000 soldiers and has supplied operational support to nearly every national intelligence agency and combatant command. ## Infrastructure Significance MIRC makes the distributed character of [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence|Army intelligence]] unusually visible. A reserve intelligence formation is not merely a pool of soldiers waiting to deploy with weapons. It is also a network of trained analysts, secure facilities, communications, production environments, technical specialties, connected units and relationships with national agencies. Those capabilities are geographically present across the United States and can reinforce active-component and national missions without turning the Army into the general civilian police. In the plumbing metaphor used by the [[wiki/Counterterrorism|Counterterrorism]] hub, MIRC supplies personnel, units and production capacity that can connect to the larger Army, joint and Intelligence Community pipes. Its official structure is direct evidence that the military-intelligence substrate is distributed through the country rather than confined to a small set of overseas battlefields or Washington headquarters. ## Relationships - **part of:** United States Army Reserve and [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence|United States Army Intelligence]]. - **professional corps:** [[wiki/Military Intelligence Corps|Military Intelligence Corps]]. - **enterprise:** [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise|Army Intelligence and Security Enterprise]]. - **headquarters:** [[wiki/Fort Belvoir|Fort Belvoir]], Virginia. - **supports:** combatant commands, Army service component commands and the [[wiki/Intelligence Community|Intelligence Community]]. - **mission disciplines:** [[wiki/Signals Intelligence|SIGINT]], [[wiki/Human Intelligence|HUMINT]], counterintelligence, strategic intelligence, technical intelligence and collection operations. - **operational context:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism|Counterterrorism]] and [[wiki/Military Support to Civilian Counterterrorism|Military Support to Civilian Counterterrorism]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. Army Reserve — Military Intelligence Readiness Command, About Us](https://www.usar.army.mil/Commands/Functional/MIRC/About-Us/) - [U.S. Army Reserve — Military Intelligence Readiness Command](https://www.usar.army.mil/MIRC/)