Claim: The C&E Department of Singapore Armed Forces Signals Formation, a combat support arm tasked neither with providing communication on multiple platforms nor 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. 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.