Census Announces One-Hour AESDirect Outages on April 20 & 27

The Census Bureau issued an AES broadcast announcing that the AESDirect system will undergo two one-hour maintenance outages on April 20 from 1 a.m .-- 2 a.m. EDT and April 27 from 1 a.m .-- 2 a.m. EDT. Census says that during these outages the AES Downtime Policy will not be enacted due to the brief periods of unavailability. Census encourages all AESDirect program filers to file shipments prior to these outages if possible. AESPcLink users are encouraged to continue creating and storing shipments in a queue on their local computers for transmission when AESDirect is brought back on-line.