NWS and Partner Involvement in IPAWS, CMAS, and CAP

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NWS and Partner Involvement inIPAWS, CMAS, and
CAP

• June 22, 2010
• NWS Partners Meeting
• Silver Spring, MD
• Herb White
• Herbert.White_at_noaa.gov

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Overview

• Review of IPAWS, CMAS, and CAP
• Current and Future NWS Involvement
• Current and Future Partner Involvement
• Questions and Answers

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Alert messages sent in Common Alerting Protocol
(CAP). CAP is a standards based Alert Message
data exchange format.
Other
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IPAWS Architecture Standards based Alert
Message aggregation, shared/trusted access
distribution, and alerts delivered to devices and
consumer technologies
Emergency Managers Alert messages
produced in CAP format using IPAWS compliant tools
Message Disseminators
Public
IP access networks
Emergency Alert System
Federal

AM FM Satellite Radio Digital Analog Cable
Satellite TV
Digital EAS
PBS
IPAWS
State
Commercial Mobile Alert System
Cellular Phones
Cellular Carriers Networks
Web Browsers, widgets, web sites
Internet Services
Local
NOAA
CAP message aggregation, authentication, adaption
State / Local Unique Alerting Systems (e.g. ETN,
Siren, Signage systems)
IP distribution networks
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Snippets from a CAP Message

• Programmer friendly
• Easy to parse and reuse
• Can make many products
• Focus on content
• Enables decision support
• technologies
• Low cost of entry

lteventgtFlash Flood Warninglt/eventgt lturgencygtImmedi
atelt/urgencygt ltseveritygtSeverelt/severitygt ltcertain
tygtLikelylt/certaintygt lteffectivegt2010-06-03T1400
00-0500lt/effectivegtltexpiresgt2010-06-03T170000-
0500lt/expiresgt ltsenderNamegtNWS Memphis (Western
Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and Northern
Mississippi)lt/senderNamegt ltheadlinegtFlash Flood
Warning issued June 03 at 200PM CDT expiring
June 03 at 500PM CDT by NWS Memphislt/headlinegt ltd
escriptiongtDOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 3 INCHES
OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST
HOURlt/descriptiongt ltinstructiongtMOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAYTURN AROUND...DONT DROWNlt/instructiongt ltpo
lygongt36.20,-88.93 36.18,-88.91 36.05,-88.84
35.99,-89.17 35.99,-89.19 35.98,-89.21
35.94,-89.30 36.17,-89.31 36.21,-89.04
36.20,-88.96 36.22,-88.95 36.20,-88.93lt/polygon
gt
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Commercial Mobile Alerting System(CMAS)

• Available to public as early as 2012
• Capabilities
• Cell tower broadcast (point to multi-point)
• Geographic Targeting of Alerts to county level
• Text limited to 90 characters (first generation)
• Streaming Audio (future)
• Streaming Video (future)
• Downloadable Multimedia (future)
• Public opt-out rather than opt-in

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CMAS Architecture
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Current NWS Involvement

• CAP 1.1 feeds made available at
  weather.gov/alerts
• Working with CAP standards body - OASIS
• OASIS membership
• Technical and adoption subcommittees
• Review of CAP 1.2
• Feedback to DHS/FEMA on IPAWS and CMAS
  requirements
• Working on FCC EAS rule change subcommittees
• Outreach
• Partners Meetings
• Interoperability demonstrations at emergency
  manager related events
• Industry events (i.e., AMS, NAB, Consumer
  Electronics Show, etc.)

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Future NWS Involvement

• NWS CAP User Guide to be released summer 2010
• Experimental CAP Push (TBD)
• Once CAP 1.2 approved as OASIS standard, special
  team to begin work on CAP 2.0
• Feedback to DHS/FEMA on IPAWS and CMAS
  requirements (need to be more specific)
• Changes to Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part
  11 (EAS)
• Outreach
• Partners Meetings
• Shared booth space and interoperability
  demonstrations with DHS/FEMA and private sector
  at emergency management conferences
• Industry events (i.e., AMS, NAB, Consumer
  Electronics Show, etc.)

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Current Partner Involvement

• EAS-CAP Industry Group (ECIG)
• Alerting Solutions, Inc.
• Communications Laboratories, Inc.
• iBiquity Digital Corporation
• Monroe Electronics, Inc.
• MyStateUSA
• Sage Alerting Systems, Inc.
• SpectraRep, LLC
• TFT, Inc.
• Trilithic, Inc.
• Warning Systems, Inc.
• ECIG Recommendations For a CAP EAS Implementation
  Guide
• Interoperability demonstrations and conference
  booth space
• Weather enterprise partners?

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Future Partner Involvement

• Special team to work on CAP 2.0
• Interoperability demonstrations and conference
  booth space
• Increase in sales of innovative CAP compliant
  alerting devices and services

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Areas of Opportunity for Innovation

• Alerts on cell phones and consumer navigation
  systems
• Graphical and/or text oriented
• Interactive/customizable
• Route user away from threats
• Cell phone applications (i.e., iPhone, Android,
  etc.)
• Decision support tools
• Integration with social media (i.e., more
  transactional than traditional one-way delivery
  of information)
• Others

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Outcomes

• We hope that you are
• More knowledgeable about evolving
  interoperability and public alerting efforts
• Thinking about coming opportunities to
• Leverage CAP
• Get the right message to the right people
• Help people make the best possible life,
  property, and economic decisions

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Contacts

• CMAS
• Denis Gusty, Deputy Branch Chief, Office of
  Interoperability and Compatibility, DHS Science
  and Technology Directorate
• Denis.Gusty_at_dhs.gov
• www.cmasforum.com/
• www.fcc.gov/pshs/services/cmas.html
• IPAWS
• Antwane V. Johnson, Division Director, NCP IPAWS,
  DHS/FEMA
• Antwane.Johnson_at_dhs.gov
• www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/
• NWS
• Herb White, Dissemination Services Manager,
  OCWWS, NOAA/NWS
• Herbert.White_at_noaa.gov
• www.weather.gov/alerts-beta/
• Q A

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Supporting Information
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Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Drivers

• Public Safety
• Interoperability enables the American people to
  receive alert and warning information through as
  many means as possible
• FEMA Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
  (IPAWS) - Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS)
• Commercial Weather Sector
• Low cost of entry
• Can make many products from same easy to parse
  message
• Minimal issues when NWS makes changes
• NWS efficiency and agility
• Greater focus on content of message and less on
  mechanics
• Minimal impact on users when NWS changes
  necessary
• Enables/facilitates decision support and related
  technologies

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IPAWS, CMAS, and CAPHow it all fits

• Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
  (IPAWS) resulted from Executive Order 13407
  requiring creation of a more effective,
  reliable, integrated, flexible, and comprehensive
  system that enables the American people to
  receive alert and warning information through as
  many means as possible.
• Owned by Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  and FEMA with direction from the FCC
• IPAWS Projects
• Commercial Mobile Alerting System (CMAS)
• EAS Modernization and Expansion Project
• Digital Emergency Alert System (DEAS)
• Geo-Targeted Alerting System (GTAS)
• NOAA Weather Radio Improvement Program (WRIP)
• Inventory and Evaluation (IE)

Focus on Interoperability using Common Alerting
Protocol (CAP). CAP is a standards based Alert
Message data exchange format.
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Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS)

• National capability to deliver geographically
  targeted Presidential and imminent threat alerts
  (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, etc) and child
  abduction emergencies through mobile devices
  (cell phones)
• Origins in Warning, Alert, and Response Network
  (WARN) Act of 2006
• DHS/FEMA and stakeholder involvement (wireless
  carriers, equipment manufacturers, Government
  agencies, broadcast associations, emergency
  management, safety organizations, and other
  experts)
• Wireless carrier participation voluntary, but all
  majors participating
• Available to public as early as 2012