[USA] FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Launches Disaster Information Reporting System / GovTech, 11 September 2007
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"The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) launched a newly designed and automated Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). DIRS is a voluntary, efficient, web-based system that communications companies, including wireless, wireline, broadcast, and cable providers, can use to report communications infrastructure status and situational awareness information during times of crisis. This will better streamline the reporting process and enable communications providers to share network status information with the Commission quickly and efficiently."