The primary purpose of this agreement is to develop and maintain a wide range of identification focused online systems and mobile apps hosted by the aphis s & t identification technology program based…

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025), has a total funding amount of $296,016 and is in effect from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025. The primary purpose of this agreement is to develop and maintain a wide range of online systems and mobile applications focused on pest identification, hosted by the APHIS Science & Technology Identification Technology Program. Key deliverables include an ITP website with identification tools, mobile apps, and screening aids, continuous maintenance of the ITP framework, technical support, improvements to the IDTools and IDAids systems, enhanced search capabilities, and integration with other applications to enable seamless data exchange. This collaborative effort involves contributions from researchers across academic institutions and federal/state research labs, with the products being used by area identifiers, national taxonomists, and other non-federal pest identification and screening specialists.

The primary purpose of this agreement is to develop and maintain a wide range of identification focused online systems and mobile apps hosted by the aphis s & t identification technology program based out the pest identification and technology lab. Activities include developing and maintaining the ITP digital infrastructure, developing web-based identification products and new mobile apps and capacity, and integrating data across all ITP applications. Deliverables include an ITP website containing the identification tools, mobile apps, and caps screening aids, continuous maintenance of the ITP framework to ensure consistent access to users and the IT requirements for identification tools, technical support to meet the ITP's needs, improved idtools and idaids systems with new features, improved search capabilities to support server intensive database queries, and integration of idtools systems with other epips applications to allow for seamless data exchange. The ITP system contains contributions from researchers across many academic institutions and federal and state research laboratories; the products are used by area identifiers, national taxonomists, and other non-federal pest identification and screening specialists.