National Weather Service Delays Roll out of CMAS

On June 19, 2012, in CMAS & Mobile Alerts, by Adrienne Gizicki with SRA International

As we reported a few weeks ago, the National Weather Service was due to start sending Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) messages, also known as Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), this month. Unfortunately, it looks like some delays are going to push this date out to the end of the month.

In an email sent to their local Warning Coordination Meteorologists (WCMs), NWS explained that due to due to technical issues the launch will be delayed 7-10 days.

“If all goes well, a late Wednesday or Thursday (June 27 or 28) rollout is possible and we’ll try not to push things back until the following week.”

Here’s to hoping that all of the issues get worked out soon. We know that there are a lot of people excited to see CMAS at work in the field.

About the author

Adrienne Gizicki

Ms. Gizicki is a Senior Consultant with SRA International Strategy and Performance Group, specializing in stakeholder engagement, project management, and facilitation. She has extensive experience working with stakeholders in the field of homeland security, specifically on issues related to emergency alerts and warnings. Prior to her work at Touchstone she spent over a decade providing grassroots and communications strategies and political analysis to Fortune 500 Corporations, and national, state, and local organizations.