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2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop 8-12 February 2010 Operational Pest Management: New Confrontations With Old Foes Operational Pest Management Research Advances
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Page 1: 2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop 8-12 February 2010 Operational Pest Management:

2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop8-12 February 2010

                                                                                                                                                                          

Operational Pest Management:New Confrontations With Old Foes

Operational Pest Management Research Advances

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Deployed War-Fighter Protection ProgramDevelopment of New Pesticides and Application

Methods to Protect Military Personnel From Biting Arthropods

• Administered by Armed Forces Pest Management Board

• Funding: $5M/year ($4.85M) recurrent (PE 0603115/Project: 830)

- Up to $3M/year to USDA Agricultural Research Service

- About $1.6M/year for other competitive proposals

- Grants up to $250,000/yr for up to 3 years

• Areas of Emphasis

- Novel insecticide chemistries/formulations

- Personal Protective Systems

- Application Technology

- Anticipate DWFP products for wider uses

• POC: Lt Col Douglas Burkett – [email protected]

• DWFP Consultant – Dr. Graham White [email protected]

Lesions of dermal leishmaniasis

Sand fly Phlebotomus

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Deployed War-Fighter Protection Program Competitive Grants FY04-10

• 6th Year for DWFP (195 pre-proposals, 70 Full, 38 grants given, ~$8M)

– PIs: Academia-15, Industry-11, Military Entomologists-12; CDC, IR-4, NECE

– Target mosquitoes, phlebotomines, other flies and general vectors

• Yielded projects, techniques and products for:

• Dengue vector control

• Combating sand flies and their rodent hosts

• Deployable spraying systems

• Improvements of space and deposition sprays

• Comparative risk analyses

• Sand Fly Control Techniques

• Attractant Toxic Sugar Baits (ATSBs)

• Novel repellents/insecticides, including specific molecular pesticides

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DWFP Accomplishment(See AFPMP DWFP Website)

• New products in National Stock System• Sprayers, Pesticides, Fly Traps

• >160 publications in 6 years• Numerous new application techniques

• Scientific specs of spray equipment

• Multiple patents/applications (11); Invention disclosures (2)• GenBank accessions (3+) • IR4 agreement to expedite PH pesticides

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DWFP is an initiative to develop and validate novel methods to protect US military deployed abroad from threats posed by disease-carrying insects.