FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) has made public a list of organizations that have signed up to test their technologies with IPAWS-OPEN, the tool FEMA has built to manage the flow of messages through the IPAWS system. If these organizations finish the process, their technologies could be used by their customers or users to activate IPAWS. When activated, IPAWS will distribute messages to a variety of different public alerting systems.
45 organizations have entered into Memorandum of Agreement arrangements with IPAWS - 35 from the private sector, and 10 from the public sector. This doesn't mean their technology works with IPAWS, but it does mean that they can use the test environment IPAWS has set up for IPAWS-OPEN...so, presumably, they're headed in the direction of becoming an IPAWS alert origination tool.
You'll see a number of alert and notification companies on the list, but you'll also see other types of solutions that could be used for activating alerts.
Here's the list:
Private Sector
Alerting Solutions
Alertus Technologies
Amatra Technologies, Inc.
AT&T Services, Inc.
AtHoc, Inc.
Buffalo Computer Graphics
CellCast Technologies
Communications Laboratories, Inc.
Depiction, Inc.
Desktop Alert, Inc.
Digital Alert Systems, A Division of Monroe Electronics
Emergency Communications Network
ESi -- WebEOC
Everbridge, Inc.
FirstCall Network, Inc.
Future Concepts IS, Inc.
Global Security Systems LLC
Google.org
Gorman-Redlich Manufacturing Company
Interop-Solutions, LLC
Keywest Technologies, Inc.
MyStateUSA, Inc.
Optimetrics
PlantCML, An EADS North America Company
Sage Alerting Systems, Inc.
SpectraRep
Teletouch Paging, LP, A Subsidiary of Critical Alert Systems
The Weather Channel Companies
Thunder Eagle, Inc.
Trilithic,Inc.
Twenty First Century Communications, Inc.
Versitell Communications LLC
viaRadio
Virtual Agility
Warning Systems, Inc.
Public Sector
FEMA NIMS STEP Program
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute -- CIMS (National Guard Civil Support Teams Information Management System)
MITRE
Monmouth University -- RISES/RRI
National Weather Service
NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD -- GTAS
NYC Office of Emergency Management -- E-Team (New York City Instance)
SAIC -- DHS Unified Incident Command and Decision Support System (UICDS)
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific -- ICBRNE Toolset
St. Clair County, Michigan -- Situation Awareness/Incident Management Custom System (IDV Solutions)
The list can also be found here on the IPAWS web site.
If your organization is interested in joining the list, probably best to contact Gary "Grandpa" Ham. He's the expert and the contractor hired by FEMA to help get organizations connected to IPAWS.
Good luck to all,
Rick
http://www.galainsolutions.com/
