USNA
Emergency Information
The Naval Academy's emergency information page routes life-threatening emergencies to 911 and general emergency information to the on-duty Watch Commander, with Naval Support Activity Annapolis fire and EMS as first responders for the Yard; like the Navy's other shore installations, USNA sits on the Navy-wide AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network rather than a bespoke campus platform, and as one of the five federal service academies it is statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX reporting regime that applies to civilian colleges.
Read the official policyInstitution
United States Naval Academy
Military · MD
~4,500 studentsAtHoc Wide Area Alert Network
In the policy’s own words
What the policy says
Emergency call routingverbatim
Call 911 if this is an emergency or a crime in progress.
- The primary instruction on USNA's public emergency page, identical in form to civilian campus 911-first guidance.
Watch Commander contactnot yet verified against the source
The policy addresses this topic; its exact wording has not yet been verified against the source, so no text is quoted here. Open the official policy to read it.
USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)Midshipmen medical emergency guidancenot yet verified against the source
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USNA Emergency Information page (host blocked automated fetch; text from search index)NSA Annapolis fire/EMS first-responder roleverbatim
The NSA Annapolis Fire Department are the First Responders for Fire and Emergency Medical Services for employees, visitors and residents on Naval Support Activity (NSA) Annapolis. This includes the United States Naval Academy as well as the North Severn Complex.
- Confirms that USNA relies on the shared installation's fire department rather than an Academy-specific fire service, consistent with its tenant-command status on NSA Annapolis.
At a glance
How this policy works
- When it activates
- USNA's public page draws a binary split: 911 for a life-threatening emergency or an in-progress crime, and the on-duty Watch Commander (410-293-5770) for general emergency information; a broader campus-wide activation standard analogous to a civilian 'significant emergency or dangerous situation' threshold was not found in public sources reviewed.
- Who decides
- The on-duty Watch Commander is the named point of contact for general emergency information; broader mass-notification activation for the installation runs through NSA Annapolis and Navy AtHoc administrators rather than a single named USNA official identified in public sources reviewed.
- Timeliness standard
- No specific minutes-based timeliness standard for USNA notifications was found in public sources; AtHoc is described Navy-wide as supporting near-immediate multi-channel push (desktop, phone, email, text) once contact information is registered.
- Emergency notification vs. timely warning
- USNA is one of the five federal service academies statutorily exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, so it does not publish a Clery-style Annual Security Report and does not draw the civilian timely-warning/emergency-notification distinction found elsewhere in this archive.
- Testing cadence
- A published USNA-specific AtHoc testing cadence was not found in public sources reviewed.
- Scope & limits
- USNA sits within Naval Support Activity Annapolis; fire, EMS and much of the broader emergency infrastructure described in public sources cover the shared installation (the Yard and the North Severn Complex) rather than USNA alone, and AtHoc reach depends on personnel registering duty and personal contact information through the self-service client.
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Analysis
Reading the policy
The U.S. Naval Academy's public emergency-information page is organized around a triage of contact points rather than a single alerting system description: call 911 for a life-threatening emergency or crime in progress; call the on-duty Watch Commander at 410-293-5770 for general emergency information; midshipmen facing a medical emergency (life, limb or eyesight) are instructed to contact emergency medical services first and then notify the duty health care provider. The Naval Support Activity (NSA) Annapolis Fire Department serves as the first responder for fire and EMS coverage for the Academy and the North Severn Complex, reflecting USNA's status as a tenant command on a larger Navy installation rather than a freestanding campus with its own fire department.
USNA's chain of contacts for non-emergency safety concerns is unusually granular for a published campus page: the Brigade of Midshipmen's welfare is routed through the Midshipmen Development Center (410-293-4897), Sexual Assault Prevention and Response runs a 24/7 confidential Victim Advocate line (443-336-2637), and the USNA Police Department (Chief of Police, 410-293-5768) sits alongside the installation's broader security apparatus. Like every Navy shore installation, NSA Annapolis participates in the Navy's AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network (WAAN), a computer-based mass notification system that pushes emergency and weather announcements by desktop pop-up, phone, email and text once personnel register duty (and, voluntarily, personal) contact information through the AtHoc self-service client; public sources describe this AtHoc deployment at the Navy-installation level rather than specifically branded for USNA, so it is presented here as the Navy-wide system the Academy sits within rather than a USNA-exclusive product.
As with the other four federal service academies, USNA is exempt from the Clery Act and from Title IX, an exemption that predates the admission of women to the academies and has drawn continued criticism from advocacy groups because it removes academy sexual-assault statistics from the federal Clery dataset. USNA therefore has no published Annual Security Report defining a civilian-style timely-warning/emergency-notification split; midshipmen are instead subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice alongside the Academy's own conduct system.
Because usna.edu returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching in this environment, the excerpts below were reconstructed from official USNA emergency-contact page text as reproduced in search-engine indexing and corroborated across multiple independent queries, and are marked accordingly.
Takeaways
Key findings
USNA's public emergency page routes life-threatening emergencies to 911 and general information to a named on-duty Watch Commander, rather than describing a single branded mass-notification system.
Fire and EMS response for the Academy is provided by the shared Naval Support Activity Annapolis Fire Department, covering both the Yard and the North Severn Complex.
Like other Navy shore installations, NSA Annapolis participates in the Navy-wide AtHoc Wide Area Alert Network, a self-service registration-based system pushing alerts via desktop pop-up, phone, email and text; a USNA-specific branded name for this system was not found.
As one of the five federal service academies, USNA is exempt from the Clery Act and Title IX, so it publishes no Annual Security Report and midshipmen fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Academy's own conduct system instead.
Provenance
Sources
- Official
- OfficialNaval Support Activity Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy, Emergency Assistance & Contact Infoinstallations.militaryonesource.milarchived copy
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Added 2026-07-03Updated 2026-09-14Via ingestion