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  2. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    Emergency Broadcast System, Local Access Alert. The Emergency Alert System ( EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and both AM, FM and satellite radio.

  3. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System - Wikipedia

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    The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System ( IPAWS) is an architecture that unifies the United States' Emergency Alert System, National Warning System, Wireless Emergency Alerts, and NOAA Weather Radio, under a single platform. IPAWS was designed to modernize these systems by enabling alerts to be aggregated over a network and distributed ...

  4. Essential Air Service - Wikipedia

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    Essential Air Service ( EAS) is a U.S. government program enacted to guarantee that small communities in the United States, which had been served by certificated airlines prior to deregulation in 1978, maintain commercial service. Its aim is to maintain a minimal level of scheduled air service to these communities that otherwise would not be ...

  5. National Emergency Message - Wikipedia

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    An emergency action notification test on an Android smartphone; October 3, 2018. A National Emergency Message ( SAME code: EAN), formerly known until 2022 as an Emergency Action Notification, is the national activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) used to alert the residents of the United States of a national or global emergency such as ...

  6. Emergency population warning - Wikipedia

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    Horn for public warning system in Sweden. An emergency population warning is a method where by local, regional, or national authorities can contact members of the public to warn them of an impending emergency. These warnings may be necessary for a number of reasons, including: Weather emergencies such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and ice storms.

  7. Enterprise software - Wikipedia

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    Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software ( EAS ), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information system, handling a number of business operations, for example to enhance business and management ...

  8. Federal Information Processing Standard state code - Wikipedia

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    These codes were used by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Agriculture to form milk-processing plant numbers, some cash registers during check approval, and in the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The FCC assigned additional numeric codes used with the EAS for territorial waters of the U.S., but these were not part of the FIPS standard.

  9. NSA product types - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) used to rank cryptographic products or algorithms by a certification called product types. Product types were defined in the National Information Assurance Glossary (CNSSI No. 4009, 2010) which used to define Type 1, 2, 3, and 4 products. [1] The definitions of numeric type products have been removed from ...