What is the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS)?
In June 2006, the President signed the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Executive Order (EO) 13407 to drive the 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”. In response, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) established the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) – the nation’s next-generation infrastructure of alert and warning networks expanding upon the traditional audio-only radio and television Emergency Alert System (EAS). IPAWS provides federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local warning authorities the capabilities to alert and warn their respective communities of all hazards impacting public safety and well-being via multiple communications pathways.
In June 2006, the President signed the Public Alert and Warning System Executive Order (EO) 13407. It is the policy of the United States to have an effective, reliable, integrated, flexible, and comprehensive system to alert and warn the American people in situations of war, terrorist attack, and natural disaster, or other hazards to public safety and well-being (public alert and warning system), taking appropriate account of the functions, capabilities, and needs of the private sector and of all levels of government in our Federal system, and to ensure that under all conditions the President can communicate with the American people.
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