Priority Objective 14b: AWN Process

Create a common process across all levels of government for Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications (AWN) to enable timely receipt and dissemination of information and appropriate response.

Steward

AWN Working Group (AWN WG) of the ISA IPC

Problem Statement

Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector stakeholders, as well as fusion centers, coordinate, produce, analyze, disseminate, and follow-up on AWNs through non-standard processes, thereby inhibiting the flow of information to enable incident preparedness and mitigation.

Desired Outcome

Common guidance for generating, disseminating, and receiving AWNs will enable Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector organizations and fusion centers to generate or receive information related to national security and homeland security threats or incidents.

Approach

Establish common AWN guidance across all ISE stakeholders, including defining a valid AWN, identifying relevant AWN stakeholder groups, identifying best practices, determining clearance level of requestor(s), validating appropriate need-to-know, and determining appropriate action agencies for specific national security and homeland security threats and incidents.

MILESTONES	Q1-Q2 FY14	Q3-Q4 FY14	FY15	FY16-18
Identify, validate, and update AWN definitions, problem statement, scope, stakeholders, and desired outcome.	AWN WG
Perform current-state analysis of AWN terminology and information flows to develop a year-1 work plan.		AWN WG
Derive best-practices and recommendations for business processes.			ISA IPC
Assign action agencies to perform analysis of AWN information elements and develop a standardized set of AWN elements.			ISA IPC	All ISE Agencies
Progress AWN interoperability across ISE through guidance and policy.				All ISE Agencies

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