The mission of the Signal Corps is to provide rapid and reliable information to support the command and control of the Army's combat forces during both peace and war. Signal support is the collective, integrated, and synchronized use of information systems, services and resources and it encompasses the following disciplines: communications, automation, visual information, records management, and printing and publications. The Role of the Signal Officer: Inherent with the Signal Corps' mission are command, supervisory, managerial, and technical leadership for the engineering, acquisition, design, programming, installation, operation, and maintenance of information systems in both fixed and mobile configurations. From the foxhole to the White House, Signal officers plan, direct, control, and manage signal support at all levels of the Army, which include tactical, strategic, and sustaining base operations. This requires the integration and/or interconnection of diverse types of automation, communications, visual information, records management, and printing and publications equipment and systems into local area and wide area information networks. This manual applies to both Active and Reserve Component soldiers. The proponent for this publication is the Signal School.