Claim: The C&E Department of Singapore Armed Forces Signals Formation, a combat support arm tasked with providing communication on multiple platforms and local networking within the battlefield, was later upgraded to a specialist staff HQ and renamed HQ C&E in August 1970; then HQ C&E would later be redesignated as HQ Signals on March 1, 1982.
Evidence: The Signal Formation of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is a combat support arm tasked with providing communication on multiple platforms and local networking within the battlefield, as well as with supporting the SAF's third generation transformation efforts by developing the capacity for network-centric warfare in the form of IKC2 (Integrated Knowledge-based Command and Control) and C4 (Command, Control, Communications and Computers) operations. In June 1966, the Communications and Electronics (C&E) Department was set up within the same year of the formation of 1 SAF Signal Corps as part of the General Staff Division of the Ministry of the Interior and Defence (MID), located at Pearl's Hill. The C&E Department was later upgraded to a specialist staff HQ and renamed HQ C&E in August 1970 to cope with the increasing demand for the provision of essential communications in the SAF. HQ C&E would later be redesignated as HQ Signals on 1 March 1982 and HQ Signals and Command Systems in 2006.