FCC Seeks Partners for Local Wireless Emergency Alert Tests

The Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau seeks to gain a better understanding of end-to-end Wireless Emergency Alerts performance. The bureau seeks to partner with alert originators to conduct localized, end-to-end WEA performance tests to be conducted in the third quarter of 2022. These tests will be designed to measure WEA’s capabilities with enhanced WEA geo-targeting enabled. The bureau will work with the selected alert originator(s) to define the parameters of the test and the roles and responsibilities of test developers and participants. The bureau seeks testing partners that represent the diverse environments where WEAs are sent (i.e., dense urban, urban, suburban and rural areas). The bureau will select alert originators based on criteria that include:

1. The alert originator’s ability to organize test participants that are customers of the several Participating Commercial Mobile Service (CMS) Provider that serve their jurisdiction;
2. The alert originator’s ability to organize test participants from geographically diverse locations;
3. The alert originator’s ability to conduct a public outreach campaign that ensures public awareness about a WEA test;
4. The alert originator’s expertise in collecting data.