AEN Installations Extend Deeper Into Florida
AEN’s state-of-the-art communications system has been deployed throughout Florida, and additional counties and other entities will join the network soon.
“We have been very gratified to install our systems in emergency operation centers and work closely with emergency management officials,” said Erik Salna, an AEN installation coordinator.
Added Scott R. Owen, another AEN installation coordinator: “It has been great to see the technology serve citizens just in time for Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike.”
As of early October, AEN had been installed in these locations:
- Florida Division of Emergency
Management
- Brevard County
- Broward County
- Duval County
- Flagler County
- Miami-Dade County
- Putnam County
- St. Lucie County
- Village of Islamorada
- Volusia County
Scheduled for Installation:
- National Hurricane Center
California Reorganizes Emergency Management Unit
New legislation, recently signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, reorganizes California’s emergency management operations and centralizes several operations under one administrative roof.
The California Emergency Services Act combines the Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Homeland Security into a new, cabinet level California Emergency Management Agency (CALEMA).
The bill gives the new agency responsibility for overseeing and coordinating emergency preparedness, response, recovery and homeland security activities in the state.
"Emergency personnel, firefighters and law enforcement all over the state have been asking for this reform for many years,” said California Assemblyman Pedro Nava, chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security. “CALEMA will make the state more responsive when disaster strikes.”
In a related development, Schwarzenegger also signed the Disaster Liability Protection Act. That bill authorizes state emergency managers to establish a registry of private businesses and nonprofit organizations that are interested in helping the state prepare for emergencies and disasters. It also provides protections from civil liability for businesses and non-profits that donate goods, services, labor, equipment and other resources before and during an emergency.
The AEN Team
Chairman of the Board:
Robert Adams
President & Chief Executive Officer: Bryan Norcross
Chief Technology Officer:
Chris Bennett
Secretary/Treasurer:
Robert Wineberg
Senior Executive Vice President of Governmental Relations:
Max Mayfield
Senior Executive Vice President of Marketing: R. Matthew Straeb
Vice President of Sales & Marketing: Janis Farnham
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AEN Wins ITFlorida Competition
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AEN’s Chris Bennett and Max Mayfield celebrate the company’s latest honor. |
America’s Emergency Network has been honored with a prestigious ITFlorida Award, certifying AEN’s emergence as a leader in the state’s information technology industry.
AEN’s real-time emergency management communications system won first place in the category of Government Technology Leadership-Private Division.
The competition is sponsored by ITFlorida, a public-private partnership that assists the state’s congressional; delegation, the governor, the legislature and others. The awards honor notable achievements within Florida’s information technology industry.
Other finalists in AEN’s division included Honeywell, BearingPoint Inc. and SGIS.
“We were deeply honored by our selection as a finalist and we are very proud of winning this award, which shows once again how far AEN has come in such a short time,” said Bryan Norcross, AEN’s president and chief executive officer.
The awards were distributed during an Oct. 6 ceremony in Central Florida. The group was addressed by Sandy Baruah, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S Sen. Bill Nelson and other notable speakers.
Winners in other categories included:
Government Technology Leadership-Public
Florida Department of Management Services — Tallahassee
Excellence in Web 2.0
Sayfie Review — Ft. Lauderdale
Excellence in Bridging the Digital Divide
Digital Harmony — Tallahassee
Excellence in IT Leadership-Southeast
New World Symphony — Miami Beach
Excellence in IT Leadership-Central
Engineering and Computer Simulations — Orlando
Excellence in IT Leadership-Tampa Bay
Doctors' Administrative Solutions — Tampa
Excellence in IT Leadership-Southwest
Neighborhood America — Naples
Excellence in IT Leadership-Northwest
Allen Byington — Tallahassee
Excellence in IT Leadership-Northeast
Beeline.com — Jacksonville
ALERT FM, an AEN Partner, Extends Its Reach in the Southeast
 Residents of Jackson, Miss., and the rest of Oktibbeha County soon will have access to crucial emergency information transmitted by ALERT FM, the FM radio-based emergency alert and messaging system developed by Global Security Systems.
ALERT FM allows authorized emergency management officials to send alerts and messages to specific groups of first responders, businesses and citizens before, during and after a crisis. Because the system is FM radio-based, information can be distributed to a large number of recipients in a matter of seconds.
Targeted alerts and messages are delivered by satellite to the data subcarrier of FM transmission towers and can be received on ALERT FM receivers and other mobile devices, including PDAs, cell phones and other specialized receivers equipped with FM chips. Potential notifications include not only tornado or other severe weather warnings but also geographically-targeted school closings, boil water notices, traffic alerts and similar information.
ALERT FM works in association with and as a complement to the Internet- and satellite-based emergency information network being deployed by America’s Emergency Network. Robert L. Adams, the founder, president and chief executive officer of Global Security Systems and ALERT FM, also serves as chairman of AEN.
“Residents in Oktibbeha County will have the potential to receive emergency information from their local emergency management agency as well as National Weather Service severe weather warnings through personal, portable ALERT FM receivers,” said Jim Lowery, Global Security Systems’ general manager. “The county’s initiative to utilize ALERT FM technology reflects a strong commitment to safeguarding the community – an effort that we anticipate expanding throughout the Southeast and, ultimately, the nation.”
The reliability and redundancy of ALERT FM lies in its use of a pre-existing network of FM towers, which in turn provides overlapping coverage of an area. The ALERT FM receivers automatically tune themselves to the strongest FM signal in their locations.
Oktibbeha County joins the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and several other Mississippi counties in utilizing ALERT FM for emergency alert and messaging.
More than 20 million people in nine states have access to ALERT FM technology. Associations of broadcasters in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida unanimously support the FM-based system.
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This newsletter is produced by American's Emergency Network, the nation's first comprehensive emergency alerting and communications system. It is published monthly, along with occasional special editions, to report important developments at AEN and within the field of emergency communications.
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