Partnerships play a key role within the AHC and provide much of the support, information, and communication capabilities throughout the year.
 
During the hurricane season, these partnerships coordinate together to share information, coordinate communications, and help the private sector better coordinate with government.
 
These partnerships are formed for various reasons as outlined below.
 

Operational Coordination Partnerships:
 
These partnerships typically form from a mutual desire to coordinate information and operations during any type of disaster.

• Edison Electric Institute
  
• Energy Marketers of America (EMA)
  
• Food Industry Association (FMI)
• Association of American Railroads (AAR)
  
• American Public Power Association (APPA)
  
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
  
• Golden Triangle District
  
• American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)
  
• Healthcare Ready
  
• National Governors Association (NGA)
  
• Council of State Governments
  
• American Trucking Association (ATA)
  
• Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA)
  
• Participating companies from various sectors: Southern Company, Duke, American Electric Power, ComEd, Florida Power & Light, First Energy, Dominion, Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, Louisville Gas & Electric, Westar Energy, ONCOR Energy, CenterPoint Energy, National Grid, PSEG – Long Island, ConEdison, Eversource Energy, PEPCO, PECO, Exelon, PPL Electric, Wakefern Foods, Verizon, Asplundh, Dominion Energy, Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA), Storm Center Communications, Training Outreach, Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern Grid, ARCOS, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Southern Cal Edison, Bent Ear Solutions LLC, Skyline Technology Solutions, Dominion Energy, ARCOS, AES, and more.
  

 

Research and Development Partnerships
 
These partnerships form to share information and understand requirements to support the development of new solutions, policies, processes, that support specific use cases within the AHC work groups.

• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• American Trucking Research Institute (ATRI)
• Idaho National Lab (INL)
• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (JHU-APL)
• Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)
• Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation
• National Science Foundation (NSF)

Information Sharing Partnerships:
 
These partnerships form to share information to enhance situational awareness and decision making during a disaster.

• National Council of ISACS
• Multi-State ISAC
• State Fusion Centers
• State Emergency Operations Centers
• Private Sector Liaisons
• National Insurance Crime Bureau
• Federal Agencies & Councils: DHS CISA, FEMA US/DOT Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, DHS TSA (Roadway, Air, and Port), NOAA, NASA, USGS, CDC, US DOE, US HHS, White House Office of Science Technology and Policy, State, Local, Tribal & Territorial Government Coordinating Council (SLTTGCC)
• National Governor’s Association

 
Solution Development Partnerships:
 
These partnerships form to develop specific processes or solutions:

• Bent Ear Solutions
  
• ESRI
  
• Storm Center Communications
  
• Hughes Network Systems
  
• TheoremGeo

 
Critical Infrastructure Partnerships:
 
These partnerships form because they have a common interest in critical infrastructure resilience.

• Regional Collaborative Coordinating Council (RC3)
• Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER)
• InfraGard
• California Resilience Alliance (CRA)
• Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC)
• State, Local, Tribal, Territorial Government Coordinating Council (SLTTGCC)
• Cross-Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC)
• Nation Council of ISACs