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As many of you are aware, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established an advisory committee – the Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee (CMSAAC) to develop recommendations on the technical standards and protocols for the Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS). The committee was composed of a diverse set of stakeholders, including Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Emergency Managers, Commercial Mobile Service Providers, representatives of various stakeholder associations, among many others. The committee’s recommendation was published in December 2007 and adopted by the FCC in its First Report and Order on CMAS, forming the basis for deployment of CMAS.
The New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) today announced that it will conduct a test of the Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS, also known as the Personal Localized Alerting Network or Wireless Emergency Alerts) with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, and Federal Communications Commission this Thursday, December 15th.
According to the press release (full text below this post), wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon will participate in the test, in which OEM will send six test messages to test mobile devices across New York City between 10am and 3pm on Thursday.
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This is the final post in a series of 3 reports on the recent annual conference of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) held November 13-16 in Clark County, Nevada. See also Part 1 on CAP and Part 2 on CMAS at IAEM.
There was much happening in the federal space at the IAEM conference. FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino’s major announcement in his opening keynote address was the unveiling of the FEMA Think Tank at www.fema.gov/thinktank. Continue reading »
This post is Part 2 of 3 in a series of reports on the recent annual conference of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) held November 13-16 in Clark County, Nevada. See also Part 1 on CAP and Part 3 on Federal presentations at IAEM.
The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) is a service coming online in April 2012 that will broadcast emergency alerts to all cell phones in an affected area without the need for prior sign-up. The FEMA Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) booth had a significant focus on CMAS, noting that while the full deployment will be in April there will be an early rollout of CMAS in NYC and DC. Continue reading »
