[EAS] Authority to form State Emerg. Comm. Committees

[ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com]

Hi Darryl - Good to hear from you.  Yes, now that you mention it, I do recall now that Ann broached this, and I she was on to something..  Get the training, and get access to grants.  A good carrot, at least in concept.

In the IPAWS realm, the concept might be:  get the training, get access to send cell phone alerting (CMAS), and by the way, that same message gets a lateral pass to EAS as well.  

Since the buzz is much stronger these days on cell phone alerting than broadcast EAS, the EMs might see an enticement to take the time to go through training.

When CMAS takes off (in a year to 18 months?), accredited EMs will get access to a free cell phone alerting capability. And coincidentally those same cell phone alerts would be IPAWS CAP formatted for EAS.
 
So that would be a pretty strong draw to take a class or two on-line though EMI. If done right, the public warning course would likely fit right into the NIMS structure, which would give the EM another credit towards NIMS certification as well.

Such training should be relevant both for the IPAWS system, as well as general issues for state/local capabilities.

This could generate win-wins in a number of areas.


Edward Czarnecki, Ph.D.
Senior Director - Strategy, Development and Regulatory Affairs
Monroe Electronics, Inc. / Digital Alert Systems
ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.com

www.monroe-electronics.com
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From: Darryl Parker [mailto:dparker at tftinc.com]
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Subject: Re: [EAS] Authority to form State Emerg. Comm. Committees

Ed,Thanks for remembering this discussion. I also recall that Ann Arnold, President of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, put forth a similar proposal at NAB last year. The idea was to provide training for emergency management agencies as part of a grant process to purchase CAP-encoding hardware and software. Darryl-----Original Message-----From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of ed.czarnecki at monroe-electronics.comSent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:35 PMTo: The EAS Forum - accurate & up-to-date EAS informationSubject: Re: [EAS] Authority to form State Emerg. Comm. CommitteesBack when I was a contractor for a FEMA IPAWS project, ...The concept was to have emergency managers take training related to both CMAS and EAS functions, to allow them to be accredited to use the IPAWS system._______________________________________________This is the EAS Forum Discussion ListPlease invite your friends to join our Forum!http://lists.radiolists.net/mailman/listinfo/easAnd, remember the main page: http://eas.radiolists.net