Accomplishments and Milestones
IPAWS accomplishments to date
In close coordination with public and private sector partners, FEMA has made several important advancements to the integration of public alert and warning systems, increasing the ability of the President, as well as State, territorial, tribal, and local emergency managers to provide the public with life-saving alerts.
Previous accomplishments include:
- Began processing applications for IPAWS Public Alerting Authority (December 2011)
- Collaborated with the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) for the publication of Independent Study Course IS-247 “Integrated Public Alert and Warning System” web-based training (December 2011)
- Supported New York City test of the Commercial Mobile Alert System (December 2011)
- Began serving Required Weekly Tests for EAS Participants (December 2011)
- Conducted first-ever Nationwide Test of the Emergency Alert System (November 2011)
- Began authenticating State and local alerting authorities for IPAWS (September 2011)
- Implemented a CAP Atom Feed for EAS Participants (September 2011)
- Conducted EAS demonstration using Tsunami Live Code in Virgin Islands (March 2011)
- Rolled out the IPAWS CMAS Gateway for carrier testing (February 2011)
- Conducted live code exercise of national EAS (EAN) in Alaska (Jan 2011)
- Formally adopted the CAP Standard (September 2010)
- Accepted the ECIG CAP to EAS Implementation Guide (August 2010)
- IPAWS OPEN v 2.0 brought online in FEMA data center (August 2010)
- DM-OPEN v 2.0 brought online in FEMA data center (August 2010)
- First Expansion Primary Entry Point (PEP) station brought online (August 2010)
- Conducted live code exercise of national EAS (EAN) in Alaska (Jan 2010)
- Commercial Mobile Alerting System (CMAS) Interface Specification (Dec 2009)
- IPAWS Technical Specification to Common Alerting Protocol v1.2 (Nov 2009)
IPAWS milestones and goals for 2012
IPAWS was operational at the beginning of 2012. Goals for the months and years ahead involve continued coordination with public and private sector partners to improve the integrated, interoperable environment for alert and warning and to strengthen the resilience of alert and warning infrastructure while growing and supporting the community of IPAWS-authenticated Alerting Authorities actively sending alerts and warnings to the American people through IPAWS.
Milestones and goals for 2012 include:
- Provide continuing support for implementation of the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS)
- Continue the modernization and expansion of the national EAS PEP network to directly cover 90% of Americans
- Conduct a second nation-wide exercise of the National Emergency Alert System
- Incorporate IPAWS technologies into 2012 NLE and Eagle Horizon exercise
- Conformance testing of vendor products to IPAWS CAP Profile
- Continue integration and inclusion of internet service alerting capabilities in IPAWS
- Support development of NOAA CAP 1.2 alert input interface to IPAWS-OPEN
- Evaluate new alert and warning technologies
- Continue work with Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) on CAP 2.0
- Integrate Special Access and Functional Needs components
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