The Purpose: Supervisors of officers can use this manual to evaluate an officer's performance on the job. Captains and Lieutenants and can use this manual as a reference when performing their job on a daily basis. The Mission: The mission of the Signal Corps is to provide rapid and reliable information to support the command and control (C2) 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. It encompasses the following disciplines: communications, automation, visual information (VI), 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, VI, records management, and printing and publications equipment and systems into local area and wide area information networks. This publication applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard (ARNG)/Army National Guard of the United States (ARNGUS), and the United States Army Reserve (USAR). The proponent for this publication is the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (USATRADOC). The preparing agency is the Signal School.