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/ 02.23.2010 12:00AM
National EAS Summit Set for Feb. 28
WASHINGTON: Federal and broadcast officials, including NAB
President Gordon Smith and the federal point person for the Integrated Public
Alert and Warning System, or IPAWS, will meet to discuss the nation’s emergency
alerting infrastructure this weekend at the 2010 EAS Summit, Feb. 28-March 1 at
the Hyatt Regency in Washington.
The National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations is hosting the event.
Broadcasters say they hope to expand efforts to make sure the government and
public understand the role stations play in serving as the lifeline to the
public in emergencies.
NASBA represents the leaders of the 50 state broadcast associations, the core
of the NAB's grassroots lobbying program.
A draft agenda is available on the NASBA Web site.
Scheduled speakers include Wade Witmer, deputy division director of the IPAWS division
within the Federal Emergency Management Administration; Gordon Smith, NAB president
and CEO; Jamie Barnett, chief of the FCC Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau; Leonard Charles, director of engineering, Midwest Division of
Morgan Murphy Media; David Layer, senior director, advanced engineering, NAB;
Clay Freinwald, Washington State Emergency Communications Committee chair, and
Bryan Fisher, director, Information Management Alert and Warning Systems,
Alaska Division of Homeland Security.
The event is separate from the FCC’s public forum to discuss the creation of an
emergency response interoperability center, scheduled for March 2 from 2 to 4
p.m. at the commission’s headquarters in Washington. (See “FCC
Reschedules Emergency Response Forum”)
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