The Federal Emergency Management Agency adopted a new digital message format...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency adopted a new digital message format for the Integrated Alert Public Warning System (IPAWS), the next-generation emergency alert and warning network. The new digital message format is the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information…
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Standards Common Alerting Protocol v1.2 Standard. The open standard will enable alert messages to be easily composed by emergency management officials for communication with citizens using a much broader set of devices, FEMA said. IPAWS’ purpose is to expand on the Emergency Alert System by allowing emergency management officials to reach as many people as possible over as many communications devices as possible, including radio, TV, mobile phones, personal computers and other communications devices. The current system relies largely on radio and TV.