DIRS Exercise Set for June 10-12
The FCC Public Safety Bureau will conduct a voluntary exercise of the disaster information reporting system (DIRS) for all communications providers June 10-12, according to a public notice in Tuesday's Daily Digest. The exercise is intended to help communications providers…
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test and practice accessing and filing DIRS reports, training employees on DIRS reporting, and updating DIRS contact info, the PN said. It will begin with a mock activation letter to all registered DIRS participants from the Public Safety Bureau June 10, the PN said. “The activation letter will clearly state that this is only an exercise and not a real DIRS activation.” The letter will include a list of preselected counties that form the affected area for the mock-DIRS activation, and providers will be asked to report data on any communication assets they have in those counties. “As this is only an exercise, the Bureau does not expect to receive actual counts of outages,” the PN said. “If a provider does not have any communications assets in the affected counties, it can still participate in the exercise by reporting mock data for the pre-selected counties.” The agency wants initial data by 10 a.m. EDT June 11 and an updated report by the same time on June 12. The bureau will send a deactivation letter by 3 p.m. EDT June 12 "letting all participants know that the exercise has been completed,” the PN said.