The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) will be holding a virtual workshop on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, from 10:00 AM EDT to 1:00 PM EDT, for federal, state, territorial, Tribal agencies, and agencies of the District of Columbia that will soon be eligible to access the FCC’s Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) and Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS).  The event is designed to help participating agencies learn more about the public safety benefits of accessing the network outage and disaster information, provide insight on how to best interpret the information, and to review the rules that must be followed to access NORS and DIRS service provider filings.

Representatives of Tribal utility authorities and emergency management agencies are parties who should consider registering to attend this event.  The event will utilize the Microsoft Teams platform, and will also be accessible to the public, for viewing only, through Webex.  A recording of the workshop will be available afterward on the PSHSB webpage.

Registration is free.  To register for the workshop, please send your name, title, agency name and contact information to NORS_DIRS_Information_Sharing@fcc.gov.  Registration will be accepted up to Friday afternoon.

On August 9, PSHSB released a PN on this event:  PSHSB to Hold Outage Information Sharing Workshop September 7, 2022 | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)