The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has adopted a new digital message format for the Integrated Alert Public Warning System (IPAWS), the nation's next generation emergency alert and warning network. The goal of IPAWS is to expand upon the traditional Emergency Alert System by allowing emergency management officials to reach as many people as possible over as many communications devices as possible, such as radio, television, mobile phones, personal computers and other communications devices. The current EAS relies largely on radio and television to communicate to people.
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