The primary purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide continued IT support for web applications, the global pest and disease database (gpdd) and pest advisory groups (pags) database, that…

The primary purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide continued IT support for web applications, the global pest and disease database (gpdd) and pest advisory groups (pags) database, that assist plant pest risk analysis (ppra) staff in developing pest risk assessments including commodity risk assessments for imports and pest lists for facilitating exports of plant products. The activities to be performed in this agreement are to provide IT support to maintain the current versions of gpdd and pags. Additionally, this agreement will provide IT support to develop an updated version of the gpdd and to develop a pest database for the export team in ppra the cooperator team will provide IT support to maintain and improve the gpdd and pags database. In collaboration with ppra leads, the cooperator team will initiate the enhancement of gpdd; for this objective, the deliverables include presentations and reports on the progress for each milestone. The cooperator team will also develop and complete a new pest database for the export team. Accomplishments will be reported semi-annually, and the final report will be submitted within 90 days of the project end date. The primary beneficiaries of this work are the s & t ppra analysts. They use the information in the gpdd, which is made possible with the IT work in this agreement, to do their work. This work is used to support safeguarding united states agriculture and natural resources as well as supporting trade. There will be no subrecipient activities involved with this agreement.