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Federal Governance Partners

The IPAWS PMO partners with and engages numerous organizations and interest groups within each of these partner groups. The list below is a broad, but not an exhaustive, list of current or future Federal Governance partners the IPAWS PMO would like to engage.

Federal Governance Partners

Government partner organizations are also important to the success of the IPAWS program. They represent a large and unique segment of the emergency management community and the American public.

Federal Executive Government Partners

Legislative Government Partners

The IPAWS PMO has engaged with Congressional Committees who have legislative oversight of IPAWS. Quarterly reports are provided to these committees and IPAWS PMO leadership regularly engage with key members of these committees to provide updates on IPAWS implementation. IPAWS also conducted an interactive end-to-end IPAWS concept of operations demonstration for members of Congress and their staff at the US Capitol Visitors Center.

US Congress:

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Facts

What Federal Governance Partners need to know:

  1. In 2006, Executive Order 13407 gave DHS the responsibility for modernizing the public alert and warning system; DHS charged FEMA with this responsibility.
  2. IPAWS ensures that the President can send alert and warn messages to the public under all conditions.
  3. IPAWS will provide Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local warning authorities the capabilities to alert and warn their respective communities of all hazards impacting public safety and well-being via multiple communications pathways.
  4. The IPAWS PMO is implementing a proactive partner communications outreach plan to support State, local, tribal, and territorial interest and use of IPAWS.

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Key Benefits

 Why Federal Governance Partners want to know the facts:

  1. Alerting authorities will be able to send life-saving information to the American People before, during, and after a crisis.
  2. IPAWS ensures the President or the President’s designee, can send alert and warn messages to the public under all conditions.

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Calls-to-Action

Recommendations for Federal Governance Partners:

  1. Collaborate with the IPAWS PMO and IPAWS’ partners to promote policies, regulations, and guidelines which will facilitate the development, implementation, and adoption of an effective, reliable, integrated, flexible, and comprehensive alert and warning system.
  2. Continue to dedicate resources to support and sustain IPAWS’ two major components, the Primary Entry Point Modernization and Expansion Program (PEP Program) and the IPAWS Open Platform for Emergency Networks (IPAWS OPEN), as well as a number of other initiatives undertaken by IPAWS.
  3. Participate in working groups for IPAWS Federal Governance partners.

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For more on IPAWS components, including OPEN-Aggregator and PEP please click here.

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Last Modified: Thursday, 27-Oct-2011 15:23:07 EDT