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== Why CAP? ==
Warning systems in the [[United States]] today are a chaotic patchwork of technologies and procedures. Not only is there no coordination, there's no mechanism for coordination.
Existing nationwide systems are limited in scope both by their technological legacies and by the organizational mandates and priorities of their sponsoring agencies. In particular, none of the existing national systems are entirely suited to the needs of state, local and private emergency-information programs. As a result, dozens of different technical and operational warning systems have sprouted, seemingly at random, throughout the nation6. As we previously stated, the public expects rapid and accurate emergency warning, and they want all the various information technologies to be used to broadcast the warning. The chief benefit of CAP will be reduction of costs and operational complexity by eliminating the need for multiple custom software interfaces to the many warning sources and dissemination systems involved in all-hazard warning. The CAP message format can be converted to and from the “native” formats of all kinds of sensor and alerting technologies, forming a basis for a technology-independent national and international “warning internet.”
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