Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-07-22 — Disaster Communications Coordination and Preparedness Act: cross-connection with disaster-communications-coordination-preparedness: Both address federal coordination of communications outage reporting and response during disasters; the Act could build on or interact with DIRS reporting infrastructure. (novelty: 2)
2026-04-21 — Mystic Alerts Act: cross-connection with wireless-emergency-alerts-satellite: Satellite-delivered WEA could improve alert reach during terrestrial outages tracked via DIRS. (novelty: 3)
2026-04-21 — Emergency Reporting Act: Emergency Reporting Act (HR5200) would layer annual public hearings and public reports on top of any multi-week DIRS activation, tying prolonged DIRS events to a recurring FCC oversight and recommendation cycle. (novelty: 3)
2025-09-11 — Enhancing First Response Act: Enhancing First Response Act would require the FCC to issue preliminary and final reports and hold field hearings after any multi-day DIRS activation, and to publish findings on 9-1-1 outages that went unreported through DIRS and on visual outage notification practices. (novelty: 2)
2026-06-24 — Establishing the Digital Opportunity Data Collection; Modernizing the FCC Form 477 Data Program; Delete, Delete, Delete: Cross-reference: same ‘Delete, Delete, Delete’ deregulatory push touches multiple FCC reporting programs, though DIRS reforms are being handled in a separate proceeding from the BDC streamlining. (novelty: 2)