Transcript Document

The National Public Alerting System &
The Multi-Agency Situational Awareness
System
Richard Moreau, Chief
Interoperability Development Office
Public Safety Canada
DATE: May 1, 2012
RDIMS # 594356
Purpose
● To provide an overview of national emergency alerting & information
exchange initiatives in Canada:
- The National Public Alerting System (NPAS); and
- The Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS)
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Canadian Public Safety Priority
● Published January 2011
- Strategy updated every 3 years
- Action Plan updated annually
● Identifies National Public Alerting
System, MASAS and Common
Alerting Protocol as national priorities
● Identifies roles and
responsibilities...including shared
governance
● Identifies investment priorities
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National Public Alerting System
Originators
Technical Solution
Distribution of Alerts
The Weather
Network
Provinces and
Territories
GoC Federal
Agencies
Pelmorex
Collection,
Authentication
and
Dissemination
Center
The
Canadian
Public
MétéoMédia
Twitter, RSS
feeds,
Subscription
E-mail
Voluntary
Distributors
Radio stations
Television stations
Alert Repository
for Distributors
NAADS
Cable distributors
Satellite distributors
Wireless phone
Internet providors
EMO decides to
issue alert.
Authorized User
enters alert
information into
Pelmorex
application.
Users are validated
and alerts are
checked for structure.
Alerts are broadcast
on Pelmorex’s
specialty channels
and placed in an alert
repository for
voluntary pick-up by
distributors.
Distributors check
repository for
alerts. If there is
an alert for their
area, they ‘pull’ the
content and then
present it over the
applicable media.
Alerts made available
to the public through
Permorex’s Specialty
Channels plus other
media.
EMOs = Emergency management organizations (provincial / territorial)
GoC = Government of Canada departments / agencies
Distributor participation is on a voluntary basis with no validation that alerts have been distributed.
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Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System
(MASAS)
●
MASAS is a system-of-systems that facilitates the sharing of authoritative
location-based situational awareness information, in near real-time, within
Canada’s emergency management community and with international partners.
●
MASAS connects emergency management partner systems by leveraging open
interoperability standards, protocols and operational policies.
●
Implementation of MASAS is a priority for F/P/T interoperability partners –
Action Item in the Communications Interoperability Action Plan for Canada.
●
MASAS national implementation initiative (development & operational support)
is a partnership of:
-
Defence R&D Canada - Centre for Security Science
-
Natural Resources Canada - Mapping Information Branch
-
Public Safety Canada - Interoperability Development Office
MASAS
Cost-Efficient & Cost-Effective Approach
● Real-time alerting & information dissemination can lead to increased
awareness and decreased response times
● Faster information processing through geographic visualization and
standard messaging reduces confusion; allows more time for
emergency management
● Collaboration via MASAS lowers costs for all participants, as existing
investments in data & decision support tools will be re-usable across
Canada
● Reduced information silos & duplication
● No new tools required
MASAS: Information Sharing Model
-Share information once with all...
-rather than once with each
-Your
-Your
Tools
Your
Tools
Tools
-GIS, IMS,
-CAD, sensors,
-analytics, etc.
-Their
-Their
Tools
Their
Tools
Tools
-Firewall
- Location and Event type
- Urgency, severity, certainty
Status
- Time
- Response types
- Link to more information
-Firewall
-Desktop or mobile
Multi Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS)
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MASAS Information Exchange (MASAS-X)
MASAS
Basic
Toolset
Ops
-Your
-Your
Tools
Your
Tools
Tools
-ESRI, EmerGeo,
-Interdev, Sentinel, IHS,
-CriSys, Command View,
-IDV, MyStateUSA,
-SharePoint, Hazus, …,
-basic MASAS tools
MASAS
Basic
Toolset
Their
Their
Tools
Their
Tools
Tools
Exercise
Training
-Firewall
-Firewall
-Incident management,
-mapping, dispatch,
-consoles, tablets,
-smartphones, sensors,
-digital radio, …
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MASAS: Current Status
● As of November 1st , 2011 MASAS-X has gone live with integral
dedicated technical support.
● MASAS-X is available for training, exercise and operational use.
● Strong national interest/engagement from all F/P-T/M, Critical
Infrastructure stakeholders.
- Fed: GOC-TC-DND-RCMP, HC, EC
- P: NB, BC, ON, MB, AB, PEI
- North: PS Regional, JTF-N, YU, NWT
- Municipalities: Many
- Utilities, CI and Industry
● Strong cross-border interest / engagement
- MASAS – US IPAWS
- MASAS – vUSA (Virtual USA)
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CA-US Public Safety Priority
Beyond the Border
Action Plan
Page 25: “The second working group will focus on cross-border interoperability
as a means of harmonizing cross-border emergency communications efforts. It
will pursue activities that promote the harmonization of the Canadian
Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System with the United States
Integrated Public Alert and Warning System to enable sharing of
alert, warning, and incident information to improve response coordination
during binational disasters. Specifically, this working group will...”
-Working with DHS S&T Virtual USA Program as well.
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Common Alerting Protocol, Canadian Profile (CAP-CP)
● Defines rules for Canadian implementations
- Defined within constraints of CAP – fully compliant
- Defines list of Canadian event and location codes
- Addresses requirements for languages
- Makes it mandatory to use a Canadian event and location code
- Limits each alert to only one event type
- Systems/users may limit the lists, impose additional rules (“layer”)
– Ex. Broadcast intrusive list
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Governance for CAP Canadian Profile
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Alerting Business / Policy Challenges
● National efforts includes long list of stakeholders with individual needs /
business considerations. Stakeholders include:
●
EMOs in 13 Provinces/Territories (serving 1000s of alert
issuing organizations in their jurisdictions)
●
Multiple Federal EMOs and alert issuing organizations (e.g.
Environment Canada)
●
Public-Private Partnerships (e.g. Pelmorex NAADS)
●
Canadian public - ~34 Million
● Language diversity
● Cross-border emergencies and information sharing
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Next Steps
Canada’s Emergency Alerting Priorities for 2012-13 include:
CAP-CP
NPAS/NAADS
-Establishing Change
Management Process w/
Governance
-implementation of an
end-to-end national public
alerting system
-Standing up Technical
Specification Committees
and initiating
management cycle
-common look and feel
guidelines / standards
-CAP-CP 1.0
-support expansion of
public alerting to wireless
devices
MASAS
Support national
implementation:
-operationalizing national
MASAS and interface with P/T
systems
-national GIS system
-high-level SA architecture
-Information exchange SOPs
-Operations Centre
Interconnectivity Portal
-high-resilience environment
Support information sharing
during binational diasters:
-Canada/U.S. information
sharing MOU/MOA for
IPAWS-MASAS
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Thank you & Contact Information
Thank you!
If you have any questions, comments or would like to receive further
information, please contact us:
Richard Moreau, Chief, Interoperability Development Office
[email protected]
613-991-6053
Jeff Boyczuk, Senior Program Officer
[email protected]
613-991-5272
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