The Center has programmatic relations with multiple partners within the fire management and fire research communities. These partners include but are not limited to multi-organizational offices such as the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and the Joint Fire Sciences Program (JFSP), offices of the USDA Forest Service, such as the Fire Sciences Laboratory, the Remote Sensing Application Center, the Northern Rockies Coordination Center, and the Northern Regional Office, relevant units within the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium, offices within Plum Creek Timber Corporation and other major private industrial forest landowners, state forests, professors and researchers at other universities, and other relevant fire management organizations at the federal, state, and local level.