The FCC Public Safety Bureau is acting to increase the use of the Integrated Public Alert Warning System (IPAWS) to propagate emergency alert system warnings, rather than the legacy “daisychain” system, said the bureau’s report on the 2017 Nationwide EAS test, released Friday. The internet-based CAP (common alerting protocol) alerts sent through IPAWS contain more information, have better audio and allow multi-language alerts, the report said. The test shows EAS participants have “improved in their ability to successfully alert the public,” the report said, though it also shows a drop from 2016 in test participation, and a Federal Emergency Management Agency report on the nationwide test released last week questioned the accuracy of the results reporting.
The National Science Foundation said it designated its first two Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research -- in Salt Lake City and New York. “These platforms will power research motivated by real-world challenges on experimental, next generation wireless test beds at the scale of cities and communities,” the foundation said Monday. “The goal is to advance the state of the art for wireless technology beyond today's 4G, LTE and emerging 5G capabilities.” The development “will help the wireless industry test new and experimental technologies, processes and devices,” said Tom Sawanobori, CTIA chief technology officer.
The National Science Foundation said it designated its first two Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research -- in Salt Lake City and New York. “These platforms will power research motivated by real-world challenges on experimental, next generation wireless test beds at the scale of cities and communities,” the foundation said Monday. “The goal is to advance the state of the art for wireless technology beyond today's 4G, LTE and emerging 5G capabilities.” The development “will help the wireless industry test new and experimental technologies, processes and devices,” said Tom Sawanobori, CTIA chief technology officer.
The National Science Foundation said it designated its first two Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research -- in Salt Lake City and New York. “These platforms will power research motivated by real-world challenges on experimental, next generation wireless test beds at the scale of cities and communities,” the foundation said Monday. “The goal is to advance the state of the art for wireless technology beyond today's 4G, LTE and emerging 5G capabilities.” The development “will help the wireless industry test new and experimental technologies, processes and devices,” said Tom Sawanobori, CTIA chief technology officer.
Representatives from APCO, the National Emergency Number Association and CTIA met with FCC Public Safety Bureau staff on changes to 911 and the role that could be played by apps and the like. “Supplemental data solutions can offer Automatic Location Information (ALI), routing information, or other data relevant to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for a wireless 9-1-1 call,” said a filing Wednesday in docket 07-114. That comes with risks, the groups warned. “To maintain the integrity, reliability and resiliency of the evolving 9-1-1 system, the parties encouraged the Commission to issue guidance to ensure that such solutions are reliable and secure.”
Representatives from APCO, the National Emergency Number Association and CTIA met with FCC Public Safety Bureau staff on changes to 911 and the role that could be played by apps and the like. “Supplemental data solutions can offer Automatic Location Information (ALI), routing information, or other data relevant to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for a wireless 9-1-1 call,” said a filing Wednesday in docket 07-114. That comes with risks, the groups warned. “To maintain the integrity, reliability and resiliency of the evolving 9-1-1 system, the parties encouraged the Commission to issue guidance to ensure that such solutions are reliable and secure.”
Any international space traffic management rules regime likely has to start with individual countries crafting STM rules governing the mushrooming of big smallsat constellations and of other commercial space missions and then standardizing those rules, space experts said Wednesday evening at an FCBA CLE. Oversize STM attention is being paid to the relatively unlikely collision of operating objects when the far bigger problem facing satellite operators is from orbital debris, said OneWeb Mission Systems Engineering Director Tim Maclay.
TRENTON -- To end New Jersey 911 fee diversion, legislators from both parties committed to seek a constitutional amendment to guarantee revenue collected for the emergency network goes to that purpose. “Let’s do it,” said Assemblyman Jay Webber (R), agreeing with two Democrats at a Thursday hearing of the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee. The FCC in February identified New Jersey as the nation’s biggest diverter, saying it used about 89 percent ($108.1 million) of the revenue for non-911 purposes in 2016.
Senate Communications Subcommittee member Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and other members of the Hawaii congressional delegation during a Thursday field hearing touted a set of bills they say are aimed at addressing issues with the emergency alert system highlighted during a January false alarm about a possible ballistic missile headed for the state (see 1801160054 and 1803160042).
A federal capital-area wireless emergency alert test starts 10 a.m. Thursday, the FCC reminded in a Wednesday note to media. Governments in the National Capital Region are using social media and doing a flurry of local media interviews before Thursday’s WEA test by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (see 1803300026).