Armed Forces Pest Management Board

USDA has applied to register NovoFly, a genetically engineered biopesticide targeting New World screwworm, for use in a wide-area sterile insect program to prevent the pest from spreading northward from Mexico into the U.S. Comments due April 27.

Pesticide Product Registration; Emergency Exemption Request and Application for a New Active Ingredient This document announces the Agency's receipt of and solicits comment on an application from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to register a new pesticide product containing an unregistered pesticide, NovoFly male- only genetically engineered (GE) New World screwworm (NWS) in...

During Justified Accord 2026 in East Africa, US Army microbiologists conducted bio-surveillance on mosquitoes, ticks, and sand flies collected across exercise locations to identify pathogens that could threaten deployed forces.

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Innovation, bio-surveillance enhance force health protection during Justified Accord 2026 U.S. Army Maj. Luis Pow Sang, a microbiologist with Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - Africa, performs a nucleic acid extraction and polymerase chain reaction test to identify potential biological threats within the specimens located across Justified Accord 2026 locations by testing mosquitos...