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2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop 8-12 February 2010 Operational Pest Management:

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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2010 DoD Pest Management Workshop 8-12 February 2010 Operational Pest Management:

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

  2. Deployed War-Fighter Protection ProgramDevelopment of New Pesticides and ApplicationMethods 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 – douglas.burkett@osd.mil DWFP Consultant – Dr. Graham White GBWhite@ufl.edu Sand fly Phlebotomus Lesions of dermal leishmaniasis

  3. Deployed War-Fighter Protection ProgramCompetitive 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

  4. 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

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

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