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Grant and Compliance Information to Help Upgrade Alert and Warning Systems

By   /  August 10, 2012  /  Emergency Management, Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

From A.W.A.R.E The City of Tuscaloosa, AL recently received a $124K grant from FEMA to purchase warning system for that city.  As many AWARE readers know, in order to hook into IPAWS/CMAS a locality may have to upgrade their current alerting system to be CAP v1.2 compliant.  So how where can localities find out about [...]

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How to Secure and Prepare for Large Events

By   /  June 4, 2012  /  Emergency Management, Homeland Security  /  No Comments

In April 2011, as some 100,000 fans converged in Talladega, Ala., for another NASCAR extravaganza, event organizers slipped into emergency mode. With tornadoes spotted throughout the immediate area, a unified command center formed at the race track to broadcast instructions and warnings. Police officers and track security along with federal and state agencies coordinated efforts [...]

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Cloud Computing and Emergency Management: The Virtual EOC

By   /  May 25, 2012  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

From the Disaster Academia blog by Valerie Lucus-McEwen Emergency managers, like Pascal Schuback who is the program coordinator for the King County, Washington Office of Emergency Management. have to be flexible, inventive and … somewhat sly.  They understand drastic budget cuts and personnel reductions. They know how to find resources when they are really needed. They [...]

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FEMA to gather user info on two separate grants programs

By   /  April 11, 2012  /  Emergency Management, Grants & Funding  /  No Comments

FEMA is seeking the approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for two information-gathering initiatives related to two different security grants programs. The first involves FEMA preparedness grants for emergency operations centers. The second involves a Web-based survey of disaster preparedness by state, local and tribal governments. “The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant [...]

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A Vision of Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) in the Future, Part 2

By   /  March 15, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

From Adam Crowe @ the Disasters 2.0 Blog Yesterday, I began the consideration of how Emergency Operation Centers (EOC) may look in the future as emerging and social technologies continue their growth and application in emergency management and response.  So I would propose the following visions of how EOCs might look: Open-Source EOC: As more and [...]

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