2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop 8-12 February 2010 Operational Pest Management:
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2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop8-12 February 2010
Operational Pest Management:New Confrontations With Old Foes
Operational Pest Management Research Advances
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
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
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
DWFP is an initiative to develop and validate novel methods to protect US military deployed abroad from threats posed by disease-carrying insects.