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• Program Information
• Fact Sheets
• IPAWS Bulletin (Quarterly Newsletter)

The IPAWS Program Management Office (PMO) is continuously developing materials about IPAWS to increase understanding and awareness of this unique program. In this section, you will find information on IPAWS's components and progress as well as publications relevant to the alert and warning community.

Program Information

• IPAWS Strategic Plan (PDF 525KB, TXT 33KB)
  Strategy that establishes the IPAWS Vision, Mission, Goals, and Objectives. It is the cornerstone document upon which other programmatic and technical documents build.
  In Spanish: (PDF 341KB, TXT 42KB)
  
  
• IPAWS Architecture Diagram (PDF 323KB, TXT 2KB)
  Diagram showing how standards based alert message protocols, authenticated alert message senders, and shared access & distribution networks work together to deliver alerts and warnings to public interface devices.
  
  
• IPAWS Outreach Plan for Communications and Partner Engagement (PDF 713KB, TXT 69KB)
  Roadmap to engage Federal, State, territorial, tribal and local partners as well as our private sector partners and the American people.
  
  
• IPAWS Brochure (PDF 526KB, TXT 24KB)
  Outlines the program’s vision, mission, and strategic goals while also describing program components, capabilities, and outreach efforts.
  In Spanish: (PDF 451KB, TXT 27KB)
  
  
• IPAWS Glossary
  Definitions of commonly used IPAWS terminology
  
  
• State Toolkit for Adopting IPAWS
  Support for State emergency management officials’ communications with county and local officials, and the people they serve, about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System.

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Fact Sheets

• The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) / Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) Fact Sheet
  The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), the system interface to the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) service, allows alerting authorities to use FEMA's IPAWS-OPEN platform to send geographically targeted text-like alerts to the public via their cell phones and other mobile devices.
  
  
• How to Sign up for IPAWS (PDF 102KB, TXT 6KB)
  Four steps for alerting authorities interested in becoming authenticated for sending alerts and warnings through IPAWS. Detailed instructions on how to sign up for IPAWS, with the necessary application form, are also available on the Alert Origination page.
  
  
• Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Fact Sheet (PDF 97KB, TXT 6KB)
  Descriptions of how the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) will be integrated into IPAWS and the benefits from using a single standard.
  
  
• IPAWS OPEN Fact Sheet (PDF 98KB, TXT 3KB)
  The importance and features of the IPAWS Open Platform for Emergency Networks, or IPAWS OPEN, which authenticates and routes alerts and warnings to existing and emerging public alerting systems.
  
  
• All-Hazards Emergency Message Collection System / HazCollect Alerting Fact Sheet (PDF 98KB, TXT 6KB)
  Details on how National Weather Service (NWS) dissemination services will be used by IPAWS to relay non-weather related alerts and warnings.
  
  
• Interoperable Messaging Fact Sheet (PDF 97KB, TXT 6KB)
  Additional services, beyond public alerting, provided by IPAWS OPEN to enable the interoperable exchange of messages between government organizations to enhance situational awareness and collaboration.
  
  
• Alerting Inclusive of Audiences with Access and Functional Needs Fact Sheet 
  of how the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) enables rich, multimedia messages which can be leveraged by emerging assistive technologies to provide alerts and warnings to the whole community.
  

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IPAWS Bulletin (Quarterly Newsletter)

• IPAWS Bulletin February 2012 (PDF 131KB, TXT 9KB)
  Newsletter detailing CMAS testing in NYC and how to sign up for IPAWS.
  
  
• IPAWS Bulletin November 2011 (PDF 417KB, TXT 8KB)
  Newsletter detailing recent updates to the IPAWS online training course, IPAWS-OPEN, and the Commercial Mobile Alert System.
  
  
• IPAWS Bulletin July 2011 (PDF 322KB, TXT 24KB)
  Newsletter detailing recent updates to IPAWS components and developments.

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Last Modified: Friday, 18-May-2012 11:08:32 EDT