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Equipment Package: Emergency Early Warning System

Description: This equipment package monitors alerting and advisory systems, information collected by ITS surveillance and sensors, and reports from other agencies and uses this information to identify potential, imminent, or in-progress major incidents or disasters. Notification is provided to other equipment packages that provide the emergency response, including public notification using ITS traveler information systems, where appropriate.
Included In: AHTD - Crittenden County Local TOC
AHTD District 1 TMC
AHTD Motorist Assist Patrol (MAP) Dispatch
Arkansas Game and Fish
Arkansas Highway Police Dispatch
Arkansas State Police Dispatch Troop D
City of Memphis Police Department Dispatch
City of West Memphis 911 Emergency Call Center
City of West Memphis EOC
Crittenden County 911 Emergency Call Center
Crittenden County EOC
Local Federal Offices
MATA Transit Management Center
Memphis - Shelby County EMA System
Functional Requirements 1 - The center shall monitor information from Alerting and Advisory Systems such as the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), etc. The information may include assessments (general incident and vulnerability awareness information), advisories (identification of threats or recommendations to increase preparedness levels), or alerts (information on imminent or in-progress emergencies).
2 - The center shall provide the capability to correlate alerts and advisories, incident information, and security sensor and surveillance data.
3 - The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traffic management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
4 - The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to transit management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
5 - The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to toll administration centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
6 - The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to traveler information service providers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
7 - The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to maintenance centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
8 - The center shall broadcast wide-area alerts and advisories to other emergency management centers for emergency situations such as severe weather events, civil emergencies, child abduction (AMBER alert system), military activities, and other situations that pose a threat to life and property.
9 - The center shall process status information from each of the centers that have been sent the wide-area alert.
10 - The center shall coordinate the broadcast of wide-area alerts and advisories with other emergency management centers.
11 - The center shall receive incident information from other transportation management centers to support the early warning system.
12 - The center shall present the alert and advisory information and the status of the actions taken in response to the alert by the other centers to the emergency system operator as received from other system inputs.
13 - The center shall support the entry of alert and advisory information directly from the emergency system operator.

Last updated: 03-08-06