text: Overview of Signal Support
  MOBILITY
  1-102. Commanders at all levels must have network systems that are as mobile as the forces, elements, or
  organizations they support, without degraded information quality or flow. The network should provide an
  operational advantage and not a burden while enhancing the speed and agility of warfighting formations.
  REDUNDANCY
  1-103. Redundancy provides multiple transmission paths, backups, self-healing strategies, and data
  replication. Redundancy enables quick recovery if portions of the network or the data that it transports are
  destroyed, rendered inoperative, or degraded. Signal elements implement redundancy through—
  * Communications in depth—using alternative communications means for connectivity in a
  degraded environment.
  * PACE plans.
  RELIABILITY
  1-104. Reliability ensures networks are available when needed and perform as intended. Use of systems
  and networks with low failure rates, error correction techniques, and self-healing network architecture
  enhances the reliability of communications support.
  SCALABILITY
  1-105. Signal forces must provide a network that is tailorable to adapt, based on phases of an operation, to
  enable command and control at home station, en route, and in deployed environments. Deployed
  environments include training, exercises, theater security cooperation, initial entry, and maneuver. Deployed
  environments may involve minimal to robust force packages. Signal elements must be able to adjust the
  network to provide the right services at the point of need, under all conditions as the size of the supported
  deployed forces increases or decreases.
  TIMELINESS
  1-106. Timeliness ensures that the processing and transmission time for warning, critical intelligence, and
  operation order execution information is as short as practicable. As weapon systems technology shortens the
  time between warning and attack, information management processes must reduce the lag between
  information collection and dissemination.
  1-107. Signal elements perform information management in support of the unit’s knowledge management
  plan to ensure commanders and their staffs receive the information they need, when they need it, to support
  planning and decision making. As the network expands or network nodes displace to meet mission
  requirements, signal elements ensure timely network support through—
  * Priorities of work.
  * Priorities of service.
  * Quality of service management.
  TRUSTED SYSTEMS
  1-108. Commanders and system users need to be able to trust the confidentiality, integrity, and availability
  of automated information systems. Trusted networks must be transparent to users, protect the information
  and services on the network, and provide users with confidence in the validity of the information the network
  delivers. Trusted networks must be protected, survivable, and sustainable.
  PROTECTION
  1-109. Protected communications systems and networks enable joint command and control in a contested
  environment. As such, they present high-value targets to the enemy. Cybersecurity and communications
  security (COMSEC) secure DOD networks and the information they carry. Cybersecurity establishes the