[EAS] FEMA IPAWS NAB Booth Info & Workshop Schedule

[Al Kenyon]

FEMA IPAWS is participating in the 2011 NAB Show because broadcasters and
alert and warning vendors are critical partners in our vision to provide
timely alerts and warnings to the American people in the preservation of
life and property.  

 

I appreciate the input and responses you provided in the IPAWS booth during
the 2010 NAB Show and I would like to invite you to return to the FEMA IPAWS
booth (C2615) at this year’s NAB Show.  We have a lot of new information to
share with you and we are eager to answer your questions, address any
concerns, and receive honest feedback.  I invite you to participate in the
IPAWS demonstrations and workshops and take full advantage of the expertise
of the IPAWS staff.

 

The FEMA IPAWS booth (C2615) will host open, hands-on, interactive:

 

Demonstrations of end-to-end alert and warning technologies and
capabilities:

IPAWS staff and partners will be on hand at the FEMA IPAWS booth to
demonstrate the IPAWS concept of operations, alert origination, and alert
aggregation utilizing the IPAWS Open Platform for Emergency Networks (IPAWS
OPEN), and alert dissemination technologies. Multiple commercial
encoder/decoder devices, Emergency Alert System (EAS) devices, and NOAA
weather radios will monitor IPAWS OPEN for CAP messages and will alarm
equipment based on the message types and geo-location information contained
in the messages. 

 

EAS workshops:

Ø  Provide EAS Participants with information and best practices in
maintaining and configuring EAS equipment

Ø  Discuss lessons learned, mitigation strategies, and successes in the
recent EAS tests in Alaska

Ø  Review previous EAS activations

  

Implementation of CAP to EAS workshops:

Ø  Detail how EAS Participants can connect EAS devices to IPAWS OPEN

Ø  Discuss and describe the CAP architecture and feed

Ø  Provide information on CAP-based messaging

 

Workshop Schedule (C2615):

Monday, April 11 and Tuesday, April 12:     

9:30am-10am (EAS Workshop) 

10:15am-10:45am (CAP Workshop)

1:30pm-2:00pm (EAS Workshop)

2:15pm-2:45pm (CAP Workshop)

 

Wednesday, April 13:             

1:30pm-2:00pm (EAS Workshop)

2:15pm-2:45pm (CAP Workshop)

 

Thursday, April 14:    

9:30am-10am (EAS Workshop) 

10:15am-10:45am (CAP Workshop)

 

Additionally, I would like to you to attend an NAB Show panel and openly
discuss the relevance and implementation of the Common Alerting Protocol
(CAP) to the Emergency Alert System (EAS). 

 

“Next Generation EAS: The Final Stretch” 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

8:45am-10:30am

Las Vegas Convention Center South Hall, S226

Speakers include: 

 

Ø  Damon Penn, FEMA Assistant Administrator, National Continuity Programs 

Ø  James Barnett, Jr., Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Chief, FCC

Ø  Antwane Johnson, IPAWS Director 

Ø  Wade Witmer, IPAWS Deputy Director

Ø  Gregory Cooke, Deputy Chief, Policy Division, PSHSB, FCC 

Ø  Whit Adamson, President, Tennessee Association of Broadcasters

 

Visit our website at http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws to learn more about
the accomplishments and milestones reached since last year’s NAB Show.  

 

I look forward to seeing you again,