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. 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.
NOTES: Some references listed in this doc might have been superseded and/or updated and should be checked for accuracy, which can be easily done using the DA PAM 25-30 web page or downloaded and installed program for checking current and superseded DOD publications (For example purposes only: FM 3-0 was superseded by ADP 3-0, on 10 October 2011) : This document is in PDF format
