NIMSAT Project Reports

Highway 1/Port Fourchon Study

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This study was conducted to provide an assessment of the national consequences of disruptions to LA-1. The study evaluates the reduced ability of the nation to deliver two critical commodities (crude oil and natural gas) to the American public as a result of the loss of LA-1. The study also addresses local, regional and national economic impacts due to a disruption of LA-1 for an extended period of time.

This study has been prepared, in collaboration, by the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) and the National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technology (NIMSAT) Institute located at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. NIMSAT’s effort was funded by the LA-1 Coalition, a group that is a proponent of enhancing LA-1 to make it less likely to be disrupted.

Public- Private Partnership Compendium

The Public- Private Partnership Compendium is a collaborative effort between the International Association of Emergency Management and the NIMSAT Institute.

Researchers at the NIMSAT Institute conducted a nation-wide survey of emergency managers and homeland security professionals, including information on Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) public-private-partnership (PPP) models collected through the Private Sector Division office. The report examines the common threads of successful models from communities of various sizes that have launched government-industry collaborations that help them better prepare for, respond to, and recover from all types of emergency events. This compendium hopes to assist emergency managers across the nation solve common issues and create solutions to challenges, while integrating the business community and other private sector stakeholders.

In 2011, Daniel Stoneking, Director of the FEMA Private Sector office, announced the development of the Publicly Accessible, Dedicated, Resourced, Engaged, and Sustainable (PADRES) framework as a tool to evaluate the important dimensions of an effective public-private-partnership at FEMA’s first national conference, “Building Resilience through Public-Private-Partnerships” in Washington DC. The report follows this matrix as a guideline to evaluate the partnerships. It is germane to know the PADRES framework, while appropriate for most PPPs, is not a one-size-fits-all solution for every situation.