The NIMSAT Institute was established by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with formal approval of the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana System, and the Louisiana Board of Regents, on October 25, 2007.  NIMSAT was conceived based on the experiences of the Institute’s researchers during the devastations of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

 

Comprising over twenty public and private sector partners from across ten states in the U.S., the National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies (NIMSAT) Institute has been established with the goal of enhancing the resiliency of the Nation to natural and technological hazards.  In working to enhance the coordination of public and private sector, NIMSAT seeks to contribute to the mission of saving human lives, strengthening the private sector supply chains that drive the national economy, and protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources that support our economy and our way of life.

 

NIMSAT Institute leverages the expertise of its national-scale partners and advanced supercomputing technologies to pursue an all-hazards approach to homeland security and disaster lifecycle management.