📕 Communications and information systems (CIS) support collecting,processing, and exchanging information. CIS automateroutine functions, freeing commanders and staffs to focus on theaspects of command and control that require experience, judgment,and intuition. Personnel who install, operate, and maintainCIS play a key role in the command and control of the Marine airgroundtask force (MAGTF). It is an understatement to say thatthe success of the MAGTF in the modern battlespace depends onthe effective employment of CIS.