Information Week: Fed Emergency Communications Center Struggling

A federal center for coordinating government agency disaster recovery efforts has hit some bumps in the road as it tries to improve how government agencies communicate in times of national crisis, according to a progress report about its efforts.

Members of the Emergency Communications Preparedness Center said they are having difficulty getting agencies to comply with its recommendations, mainly because they have no authority to force them to do so.

This and other concerns were raised in a report released by the Government Accountability Office, which reviewed the ECPC’s charter and interviewed officials from member agencies.

The ECPC was formed in 2007 in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to serve as a clearinghouse for the sharing of emergency communications information during a national crisis. Its charter was approved last October.

more of the Information Week article from Elizabeth Montalbano

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