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Emergency communications involves multiple phases, individuals, and purposes. They include emergency alerts, requests for assistance (911 & PSAPs), and coordination among responders. Emergency communications involves priority service, reliability, service restoration, and information collection, aggregation, and dissemination.

Examples of major emergency communications events have included Katrina and 9/11.

Related issues include network reliability and assessment of the network's status.

Notice of Emergency Event

• EAS
• NCS National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee NSTAC

First Responder Communications

• Roaming Messenger - messages to first responder devices to coordinate response

Restoration

• UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET)
• ReliefWeb: Emergency Communications
• Télécom Sans Frontières
• Net Hope
• ARRL

Recovery Information Coordination

• DOJ National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Katrina Missing Persons

Interoperability

• COPS Interoperable Communications Technology Program
• The Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) Grant Program assists state, local and federal first responders better communicate during a natural or man-made disaster. NTIA, in consultation with DHS, shall make payments not to exceed $1 billion in the aggregate through fiscal year 2010 to carry out the PSIC program. Grants will be awarded by September 30, 2007, and grant projects will be completed in Fiscal Year 2010.

Legislation

• S.93 : A bill to authorize NTIA to borrow against anticipated receipts of the Digital Television and Public Safety Fund to initiate migration to a national IP-enabled emergency network capable of receiving and responding to all citizen activated emergency, Thomas 1/5/2007

News

• Wireless Web could aid disaster response: FCC commissioner touts Wi-Fi plan, TMCNet 4/5/2006
• Communications still a problem in disasters, experts say, CW 2/28/2006
• How To Put Together A Disaster-Recovery Plan, Networking Pipeline 2/17/2006
• Choosing the Best Disaster-Recovery Service Provider, Networking Pipeline 2/17/2006