[EAS] Any plans for a 2026 EAS National Test

[Sean Donelan]

FEMA national security functions 'significantly constrained' during 
shutdown, email warns

"The agency's Office of National Continuity Programs plays a key national 
security role, since it is in charge of keeping the executive branch 
running during a catastrophe."
[...]
"Now, some staffers have been furloughed; trainings and exercises on the 
warning systems have been suspended, along with meetings with wireless 
carriers and broadcasters, according to five people with knowledge of the 
situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not 
authorized to speak publicly."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/02/23/fema-continuity-shutdown-national-security/

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
>> In theory and the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
>> Modernization Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-143) directs FEMA to conduct a
>> nationwide EAS test at least once every three years.
>
>> Anyone heard if FCC & FEMA plan a 2026 EAS National Test?