David Boyd, director of the Command, Control and Interoperability...
David Boyd, director of the Command, Control and Interoperability Division of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, said Wednesday the department is close to final decisions on how an emergency alert system for wireless devices will…
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work. “Right now all of the major carriers have opted in and are working with us,” Boyd told the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council’s governing board. Two issues still must be worked through, he said. “How do you build a message 96 characters long that gets the reaction you want without causing reactions you don’t want,” Boyd said. The second is: “How do you go about aggregating this information so if the alert comes from a county or some other authorized source that you know who it is and know that they're authorized to make that alert.”