Within a year of the storm, President Bush directed FEMA to accelerate the integration of modernize the aging Emergency Alerts System and leverage new technologies into its alerts and warnings platform, the Integrated Public Alerts and Warnings System (IPAWS).
Thompson discusses the improvements made to emergency alert systems post-Katrina.
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