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. . . DIRECTION, CONTROL AND WARNING (D & W) (EMA STAFF MANAGEMENT) The Division intends to improve capacity in the DC & W program to the maximum extent possible within the guidance provided and within the funds available. To this extent priority effort. will be directed toward completing projects begun with prior years funding, maintaining and improving state and local warning and communications projects started in prior years, and expanding Survivable Crisis Management Systems as funds allow. Within existing capabilities, technical assistance will be provided to local governments to assist them in enhancing their DC & Wand imp 1 ementat 1 on of new EBS plans, Exerc i ses conducted by other program elements will be structured to exercise EOC plans and activities as much as possible. This division contracts with the National Weather Service (NWS) and manages on the i r beha 1 f the NOAA Weather Rad i 0 (NWR) system in Colorado. This is one of the many warning systems available to the state to provide timely warning of natural and man-caused threats to the public. The funds provided this year by NWS are primarily for maintenance and recurring charges. However, any savings may be used to expand the system or for any benefi ci a 1 use to the syste~L .4 console for remote control of all NWR sites wi 11 be installed in the EOe. . The local government be continued, and new insertion of warning continued. direction and control system expansion stations added as funding is available. data in local phone di rectories wi 11 wi 11 The be Efforts will be made to replace rOlling stock of the state communications van and implement additional new technology systems if funding allows. The State will continue implementation of statewide pac~et switch network. The cornn1ur;ications officer also serves as Telecommunications Committee chair of State and Local Emergency Management Data User's Grouo, and of the Colorado Incident Command System Board (CICS). Through SALEMDUG and on its own, Colorado will press for interconnection of ADP resouroes via radio and other methods of communicaticn. This will include implementation of an EOC wide and Department 1'1 i de LAN if fundi ng is approved by the 1 eg i s 1 ature, This system wi 11 be integrated with FNARS, FNATS and packet to Ultimately allow for .paper-less. EOC message and status display system. Efforts will continue to expand participants in the multi- agency, mu It i-hazard te 1 ecommuni cat ions MOU and to enhance the statewide integrated DC & W system. t;~:! Attlll.h I ::;;i;.;+"Y';>',':"",,*- . . ,;",' ,; ~".;~ .'; , ~m;JC.'.:'~~;':" .