NWS and Partner Involvement inIPAWS, CMAS, and CAP

June 22, 2010NWS Partners Meeting

Silver Spring, MD

Herb WhiteHerbert.White@noaa.gov

Overview

• Review of IPAWS, CMAS, and CAP

• Current and Future NWS Involvement

• Current and Future Partner Involvement

• Questions and Answers

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IPAWS Vision

Provide Timely Alert And Warning To American People To Preserve Life And Property

Television

Radio

Cell Phone

Computer

Home Phone

Public Signage

Alerting Authorities;Federal, State,

territorial, tribal, and local

IPAWS Aggregator

Alert messages sent in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

CAP is a standards based Alert Message data exchange format.

Other

MessageDisseminators

Emergency Managers

Alert messages produced in CAP

format using IPAWS compliant tools

IPAWS Architecture Standards based Alert Message aggregation, shared/trusted access & distribution, and alerts delivered to devices and consumer technologies

State

Emergency Alert System

Commercial Mobile Alert System

Federal

Local

State / Local Unique Alerting Systems

(e.g. ETN, Siren, Signage systems)

Internet Services

IPAWS

NOAA

Public

IP access networks

IP distribution networks

Digital EAS PBSAM FM Satellite Radio;Digital Analog Cable

Satellite TV

CellularPhones

Web Browsers, widgets, web

sites

CAP message aggregation,

authentication, adaption

CellularCarriers

Networks

Snippets from a CAP Message

<event>Flash Flood Warning</event>

<urgency>Immediate</urgency>

<severity>Severe</severity>

<certainty>Likely</certainty>

<effective>2010-06-03T14:00:00-05:00</effective><expires>2010-06-03T17:00:00-05:00</expires>

<senderName>NWS Memphis (Western Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and Northern Mississippi)</senderName>

<headline>Flash Flood Warning issued June 03 at 2:00PM CDT expiring June 03 at 5:00PM CDT by NWS Memphis</headline>

<description>DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER THE PAST HOUR…</description>

<instruction>MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY…TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN</instruction>

<polygon>+36.20,-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,-88.93</polygon>

Programmer friendlyEasy to parse and reuseCan make many products

Focus on contentEnables decision support technologies

Low cost of entry

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

CMAS Architecture

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.)

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.)

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?

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

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

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

CMAS:Denis Gusty, Deputy Branch Chief, Office of Interoperability and

Compatibility, DHS Science and Technology DirectorateDenis.Gusty@dhs.govwww.cmasforum.com/www.fcc.gov/pshs/services/cmas.html

IPAWS:Antwane V. Johnson, Division Director, NCP IPAWS, DHS/FEMA

Antwane.Johnson@dhs.govwww.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/

NWS:Herb White, Dissemination Services Manager, OCWWS, NOAA/NWS

Herbert.White@noaa.govwww.weather.gov/alerts-beta/

Q & A

Contacts

Supporting Information

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

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 (I&E)

– Radio Broadcast Data System (RBDS)

Focus on Interoperability using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

CAP is a standards based Alert Message data exchange format.

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Current IPAWS Activities

IPAWS Technical Specification to Common Alerting Protocol v1.2 (Completed Nov 2009)

Adopted Commercial Mobile Alerting System Interface Specification (Completed – Dec 2009)

Conducted End-to-End Test of EAS Using Live Codes in Alaska (Completed – Jan 2010)

Commenced construction of Primary Entry Point expansion sites

Begin enhancements to DM-OPEN system to incorporate IPAWS Aggregator and Gateway

functions

In Work:

Inventory and Evaluation of State and Local EOC Alert and Warning Capabilities

Formal adoption of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP v1.2) (September 2010)

Publish a CAP to EAS Implementation Guide (September 2010)

Conduct a National exercise of the Emergency Alert System (January 2011)

IPAWS CMAS Gateway IOC (Feb 2011)

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