Project Number: 6615-32000-043-14
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 20, 2006
End Date: Aug 30, 2009

Objective:
Research and development of small, field-deployable devices to characterize ULV insecticide treatments, spatial repellents near tents, and the use of personal protectants to reduce insect-borne disease risk to military personnel deployed on foreign soil.

Approach:
(1) A field portable device based on ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) will be tested as a means to map the ULV treatment in different environments (desert, jungle, etc.) to increase our knowledge about how best to use ULV adulticides. (2) A small device based on field-assisted ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) will be developed to indicate the concentration level of spatial repellent and thereby assess the threshold concentrate at which the efficacy of the spatial repellent fails. (3) A FAIMS device will be developed to assess compliance (of repellent use) by deployed personnel. (4) A FAIMS device will be developed and tested for field-use ion the assessment of remaining permethrin treatment to a combat utility uniform.