Welcome to the EAS-CAP Industry Group

The EAS-CAP Industry Group (ECIG) is a coalition of Emergency Alert System equipment, software and service providers.

The EAS-CAP Industry Group is working to develop a voluntary profile for the interoperability of advanced Emergency Alert System (EAS) capabilities in the United States using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). 

Current News

Tuesday, October 7th - Comments on EAS-CAP Profile Open through November 10th
The EAS-CAP Industry Group is holding open the commend period for the draft EAS-CAP Profile Recommendation through November 10th, 2008.  Comments may be sent to comment@eas-cap.org.

Thursday, September 25 - ECIG Releases EAS-CAP Profile Recommendation
The EAS-CAP Industry Group – a broad coalition of equipment, software and service providers to the Emergency Alert System - today announced that its members have approved a profile for the effective use and translation of the open, non-proprietary Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for the next generation of broadcast EAS. The profile will be an important step towards improving interoperability across agencies, jurisdictions, systems and vendors, helping to ensure that the public benefits from improved capabilities to communicate weather, civil, AMBER and other alerts via broadcast media.  The Industry Group will provide this profile as a recommendation to U.S. governmental agencies and industry associations on the use of CAP for EAS purposes, including the FCC, FEMA, National Weather Service, and other organizations.
To view the full media release please click here.

Monday, June 2 - The EAS-CAP Industry Group held its first meeting by teleconference, establishing the overall objectives of the group.  ECIG members agreed on the mission of defining an interoperability profile within CAP 1.1 that allows an EAS device to be able to receive a CAP alert from anywhere, and render it into a consistent EAS message.  Members at this founding meeting included Digital Alert Systems, Hormann America, Monroe Electronics, MyStateUSA, Sage Alerting Systems, SpectraRep, TFT, Trilithic.