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SPOTLIGHT: GAO: Emergency alert system old, unreliable
In the eight years since the 9-11 attacks, the government has done plenty of work to upgrade security systems. But it has never tackled any effort to modernize the U.S. emergency alert system. A report by the General Accountability Office blew the whistle on the system's flaws. It called the existing Emergency Alert System (EAS) both "antiquated" and "unreliable." The GAO said the Federal Emergency Management Agency has made only "limited progress" in creating a system to replace it. "Specifically, a lack of training and national-level testing raises questions about whether the relay system would actually work during a national-level emergency," the GAO said. Article
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