The Northwest Warning, Alert and Response Network (NWWARN) is a collaborative effort between government and private sector critical infrastructure partners with a goal of near real-time information sharing to help protect our regional/national infrastructures, communities and the public. We serve the governments and citizens of the Northwest US states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Yukon Territory.

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Goals

• Maximize real-time, two-way sharing of situational information without delay
• Provide immediate distribution of critical information to the members who need to act on it
• Provide a place for members and non-members to submit suspicious activity reports to the FBI and Washington State Fusion Center. 
• Use commonly used, popular mediums for disseminating messages (phone calls, emails, text messages, etc)

NWWARN was designed and developed over five years with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) and regional private/public critical infrastructure leaders.  Members include key business and government managers with responsibilities for security, preparedness, strategic planning, emergency management, response and recovery from all disasters and terrorism threats.

It is the communication backbone of the Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC) Critical Infrastructure/Key Resources two-way communications.