Navy Entomology Center of Excellence and the DWFP Program

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Navy Entomology Center of Excellence and the
DWFP Program

• Officer in Charge
• George. B. Schoeler, PhD
• Commander, Medical Service Corps,
• U.S. Navy

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Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE)

• NECE is unique as the only U.S. Department of
  Defense activity devoted solely to operational
  public health entomology.
• Provide worldwide operational support and
  services.
• Develop novel application technologies to better
  protect deployed war fighters from insects that
  transmit diseases.
• NECE is an Echelon-5 command under
  command/control of the Navy Marine Corps Public
  Health Center, Portsmouth, VA.

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Navy Marine Corps Public Health Center
(NMCPHC)

• NMCPHC provides leadership and expertise to
  ensure mission readiness through disease
  prevention and health promotion in support of the
  National Military Strategy (serves as the CDC for
  the Navy and Marine Corps)
• Protection through Prevention
• Provides expertise and technical support in
  military public health, including
• Health Risk Assessment
• Deployment Health Support
• Population Wellness Support
• Health Information Management
• Health Surveillance Support

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MISSION
Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) is
the Navy and Marine Corps center of expertise for
operational entomology. We develop and evaluate
novel products and application technologies to
better protect deployed forces from insects that
carry diseases. We provide force health
protection through operational disease vector
surveillance and control to enhance Navy and
Marine Corps mission readiness.
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NECE Personnel

• Officer 8 total (10 billets) All Medical
  Service Corps - PhD or MS Entomologists.
• Enlisted 11 total 9 Preventive Medicine
  Technicians, 1 general duty Corpsman, 1 Engineman
• Civil Service 9 total 5 Admin support, 4
  technical
• Contractor 1 PhD Engineer (Spray delivery
  systems)
• Pending addition of 5 additional technical
  personnel to the Testing and Evaluation Division
  funding provided by Wounded Warrior/ill injured
  Program.

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Navy Entomology Center of ExcellenceOrganization
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NECE Organization

• Testing and Evaluation Division
• Conducts testing and evaluation studies of public
  health insecticide delivery systems, including
  the development, evaluation and field testing of
  new application tools, technologies, and methods
  as well as new chemical products for the control
  of disease carrying arthropods and pests of
  military importance.
• Acts as agency representatives to the Armed
  Forces Pest Management Board (AFPMB) and
  participates in the testing and evaluation of
  pest management equipment prior to its approval
  and procurement by DoD.

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NECE Organization

• Testing and Evaluation Division Capabilities
• Testing and Evaluation Spray Technology
  Laboratory
• Low-speed wind tunnel for aerosol studies,
  bioassays
• Laser Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer
• DC III (AIMS) droplet analyzer
• Slide droplet collection analysis
• Flourometer deposition analysis
• Accessible field sites, including
• Camp Blanding Joint
• Training Center (FLARNG).

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NECE and the DWFP

• Larger NECE DWFP projects are conducted through
  the TE Division with various collaborators.
• Smaller in-house DWFP projects are conducted by
  NECE entomologists/PMTs, through NECE DWFP
  committee chaired by CMAVE liaison officer.
• NECE Currently involved in 14 active DWFP
  projects.
• Collaborating with several Government or academic
  institutions.

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NECE and the DWFP

• Collaborating Institutions
• USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and
  Veterinary Entomology Gainesville, FL
• USDA-ARS-APMRU Aerial Application Technology Unit
  College Station, TX
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Army Medical Research Unit - Kenya
• University of Florida
• University of Connecticut
• Rutgers University
• Lee County Mosquito Control District FL
• Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control
  District, CA
• Florida Army National Guard Camp Blanding Joint
  Training Center, FL

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NECE and the DWFP

• As part of its DWFP activities, NECE hosts yearly
  equipment workshops conducted at the Center
  (value beyond DoDessentially, sole, global
  consumer reports)
• Evaluations conducted in collaboration with
  USDA-ARS-APMRU Aerial Application Technology Unit
• Droplet spectrum analysis is conducted on
  equipment brought to NECE by invited
  manufacturers

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Other NECE Responsibilities/Activities

• Navy and Marine Corps operational support
• Presidents Malaria Initiative
• Entomological services beyond the scope of afloat
  and shore commands
• Pesticide Applicator Training
• Training of New Accession Entomologists
• Program Managers for Navy Shipboard Pest Control
• CDR Schoeler is the Specialty Leader for Navy
  Entomology (currently 36 AD Entomologists)

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NECEs Recent Operational Support

• Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan
• LTJG Kavanaugh recently returned from 7 month
  deployment to Afghanistan.
• LTJG Mejeoumov deployed as part of Prev Med Unit.
• LTJG Hughes and LTJG Larson deployed to
  Afghanistan in Jan 2010.
• Operation Iraqi Freedom - Iraq
• Operation Continuing Promise
• Pacific Partnership 09

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Navy Entomology Center of Excellence
Navy Entomology Center of Excellence will be
recognized as a global center of excellence for
the development of innovative pesticide
application equipment and technologies, and the
center of choice for operational entomology
products and services for our Nations Military
Forces.