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Disaster Management

Enabling Emergency Information Exchange

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The purpose of the Disaster Management Program is to enhance efficient coordination and collaboration among public safety organizations by enabling the interoperable sharing of emergency alerts and incident-related data between disparate systems.

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Public Safety Officials

Basic incident information management tools are provided at no charge to members of public safety organizations. Information about the legacy Disaster Management Interoperability Services Tools (DMIS Tools) remains available; however, a major Web-based upgrade, the Disaster Management Framework (DM-Framework), is currently in progress. Please see the DM-Framework and DM-OPEN 2.0 section for further details and updated status.

To Learn More: You are invited to participate in monthly Webinars for emergency management practitioner stakeholders. Subscribe to the Disaster Management practitioner E-mail list to receive Webinar announcements and other program updates. Previous programs are stored in the FEMA Library.

Software Developers

The Disaster Management Open Platform for Emergency Networks (DM-OPEN) Web services and standards-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are provided at no charge to software developers. Information about currently operational DM-OPEN Web services remains available; however, a major upgrade to DM-OPEN 2.0 is currently in progress. Please see the DM-Framework and DM-OPEN 2.0 section for further details and updated status.

To Learn More: You are invited to participate in monthly Webinars for software developer stakeholders. Subscribe to the Disaster Management developer E-mail list to receive Webinar announcements and other program updates. Previous programs are stored in the FEMA Library.

Public Alerting

One of the capabilities provided for warning authorities is the automated transmission of public emergency alerts to the National Weather Service for distribution via the National Weather Service (NWS) family of dissemination services, and relay to the Emergency Alert System. Information about the All-hazards Emergency Message Collection System (HazCollect), including access requirements for both practitioners and software developers, is available from the Public Alerting section.

Last Modified: Tuesday, 02-Mar-2010 11:48:38 EST