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Individuals can receive standardized alerts from many sources and configure their applications to process and respond to the alerts as desired. Alerts from the [[United States Geological Survey]], the [[Department of Homeland Security]], [[NOAA]], and State and Local government agencies can all be received in the same format, by the same application. That application can, for example, sound different alarms based on the information received.
By normalizing alert data across threats, jurisdictions, and warning systems, CAP also can be used to detect trends and patterns in warning activity, such as trends that might indicate an undetected hazard or hostile act. From a procedural perspective, CAP reinforces a research-based template for effective warning message content and structure.
The CAP data structure is backward-compatible with existing alert formats including the [[Specific Area Message Encoding]] (SAME) used in [[NOAA Weather Radio|Weatheradio]] and the broadcast [[Emergency Alert System]] as well as new technology such as the [[Commercial Mobile Alert System]] (CMAS), while adding capabilities including:
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