New and Old EAS Regimes Need Improving, GAO Says, Seeking FCC, FEMA Outreach

摘要

Old and new methods of distributing emergency alert system warnings need improvement, said annew GAO report. It recommended the FCC and Federal Emergency Management Agency work to get annInternet-based EAS message system rolled out by states. "Weaknesses" in the traditional broadcast-basednmethod of distributing warnings from government agencies to radio listeners, TV viewers and multichannelnvideo programming distributor customers persist after a GAO report found problems in 2009, said thenstudy. It said the FCC and FEMA have taken limited steps to improve traditional EAS after a first-of-itskindnnationwide test of the system in 2011.