1. Disaster Management eGov Initiative (DM) Bill Kalin (Consultant) DM Program Management Office Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Demonstration: HazCollect - The All-Hazards Emergency Message Collection System International Association of Emergency Managers Phoenix, AZ November 15, 2005 .

2. Agenda Program Overview and Goals Disaster Management Vision
Demonstration Overview
Sharing Situational Awareness
NWEM CAP Alert Display
Operational View of CAP Usage
Future Standards
Agency/Program Deployments
Contact Info

3. Program Overview and Goals
Overview: DM is a Presidential e-Gov initiative for:
Providing a single source of access to information and services relating to disasters
Enhancing the nations ability to cope with all types of incidents through the ability to share information in emergencies
Program Goals:
Provide the capability to seamlessly share incident information horizontally, vertically and across disparate systems and devices
Encourage a culture that promotes and adopts information sharing
Create a practitioner-driven, public private partnership to produce information exchange standards relating to incident management

4. Disaster Management Vision:
A nation better prepared for all emergencies

5. Demonstration Overview
A train derailment will cause a monitor to send information to generate a CAP message
Rail car monitor will report the accident involving tanker cars
Sensor network will generate CAP message and send to Maricopa County (Phoenix) Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
EOC Manager will receive the CAP message from the sensor network
EOC Manager will create and send a NWEM CAP message via the Disaster Management Interoperability Services (DMIS) backbone to the HazCollect system
HazCollect will process the NWEM CAP message for dissemination via NOAA Weather Wire System and NOAA Weather Radio

6. Demonstration Overview
Another HOT day here in Phoenix…..
At this point in the demonstration, I would like to have the Cell phones and EAS alerts go off. How do we do this/control it?
Excessive heat can cause railroad tracks to “kink.”

7. Demonstration Overview
A train in downtown Phoenix derailed close to the Bank One Ballpark. Tanker car monitors transmit possible damage and chemical leak to a sensor network. The sensor network automatically sends a report converted to a CAP message to the Rail Company Emergency Operations Center.
Sirens will go off here.
Sensor
Network
CAP Message Display

8. Sharing Situational Awareness
Rail Company
Emergency Management
Maricopa Emergency
Management Center
HazCollect
Emergency
Alert System
NOAA
Weather Radio
The URL in the CAP provides
access to critical information

9. NWEM CAP Alert Display Sample screen shot of a NWEM CAP alert
NWEM CAP alerts would be displayed in the native format to your software application or device
Provides critical and actionable information

10. NWEM CAP Alert Display
Detailed information in a NWEM CAP alert

11. CAP Operational Concept
Standards allow this kind of communication between all these various systems and devices because they all adopt the standard
Tribal/Local/State
Emergency Managers
Cellular/Mobile
Devices
Mobile
Network
DMIS
Backbone
Emergency Operation Centers
Alerting and
Warning Systems
HazCollect
NOAA Weather Radio
Emergency Alert System

12. Future Standards Distribution Element Resource Messaging
Rule based routing and distribution
Single interface for routing different standards
Resource Messaging
Request people, things or supplies
HAVE – Hospital Availability Exchange
Information on hospital bed availability

13. Agency/Program Deployments
Current Deployment:
United State Geological Survey (USGS)
Auto-generates CAP alerts on any seismic activity over 5.0
Future Deployments:
NOAA HazCollect
Uses to CAP to disseminate non-weather emergency alerts via NOAA Weather Radio and NOAA Weather Wire Systems
Capitol Area Wireless Integrated Network (CapWin)
Exchange CAP alerts between law enforcement officials in the Washington, DC area
Northern Command (NorthCom)
Facilitate military to civilian communications via CAP
National Capitol Region (NCR) – Washington, DC
Create and share Common Situational Awareness across the region

14. Interoperability Platform
Contact Information
Chip Hines, PMP
Program Manager
Bill Kalin
Web Sites:
At IAEM:
Disaster Management
Booth #520
NOAA Booth
Interoperability Platform