The objective of this agreement is for to plant protection and quarantine (PPQ) receive an efficient and supportive decision-support environment for pest surveillance programs, including cooperative…

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Purdue University $475,000 under a Cooperative Agreement on October 1, 2025, to develop and operate the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Information Services (CAPSIS), a decision-support environment for the agency's Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) pest surveillance programs.

Purdue will provide information services and integrated data management for the National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS), which aggregates county-based plant pest observation records from state agencies participating in the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) program. The university's deliverables include data acquisition, management, mapping, statistical queries, metric information support, public-facing views, workflow support, and software management tools designed to enhance awareness of survey activities and exotic species information. These tools will support PPQ's regulatory and pest management decision-making and provide transparency to commodity exporters, agriculture stakeholders, and the public regarding pest surveillance efforts and responses to new pest introductions.

The cooperative agreement runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, with place of performance in Indiana. The award is funded under CFDA 10.025 (Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care), which supports efforts to protect U.S. agriculture from economically injurious plant and animal diseases and pests. No sub-recipients are included in this award.

The objective of this agreement is for to plant protection and quarantine (PPQ) receive an efficient and supportive decision-support environment for pest surveillance programs, including cooperative agricultural pest survey (CAPS), in the form of CAPS information services (CAPSIS). Through this agreement, PPQ will receive information services regarding plant pest incidence, survey activities, and spread that will be used to inform timely regulatory and pest management actions. Purdue university will provide information services and enhanced integrated data from a national collection of county-based plant pest observation records from state agencies under the CAPS program through a base information system, referred to as the national agricultural pest information system (NAPIS). This includes data acquisition, management, mapping, statistical queries, metric information support, public view, workflow support, software management tools and other capabilities which raise the status, increase awareness, and provide management tools and metrics of the survey and exotic species information generated by PPQ's pest surveillance programs. PPQ, the commodity export community, agriculture stakeholders and the public will benefit from this agreement through an enhanced understanding of plant pest surveillance efforts and responses to new pest introductions. The relay of information available to the public and agriculture stakeholders through this service would not normally be available without this agreement. There are no subrecipients expected for this award.