DIRS Test Planned for June 16-18
The FCC Public Safety Bureau will conduct a voluntary exercise of the disaster information reporting system (DIRS) for all communications providers June 16-18, according to a public notice Thursday. The test will begin June 16 with a mock activation letter…
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to all registered DIRS participants from the Public Safety Bureau, it said. The letter, which "will clearly state that this is only an exercise,” 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. "Since this is an exercise, the FCC does not expect to receive actual outage data," the notice said. Providers that don’t have communications assets in the affected counties can still participate in the exercise by reporting mock data for the counties. The agency wants initial data by 10 a.m. ET June 17 and an updated report by the same time June 18. The bureau will send a deactivation letter by 3 p.m. ET June 18 to let participants know that the exercise is over.