Progress 07/01/23 to 06/30/24
Outputs
Target Audience:Target audiences were the program directors/grant awardees of the various programs included under the Tactical Sciences umbrella and potential expertpanelists for the review of the impact of climate change on pests of food, feed and fiber crops. Changes/Problems:Due to overwhelming backlog of activities within the project programs, we have moved to a response paper and remote meeting approach rather that face to face meetings to develop documents from scratch. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?During the next reporting period we anticipate completion of the project. Documents will be posted to the public and summary reports will be developed and distributed.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Products are under development and reviewto educate and inform the public and decision-makers about the Tactical Science programs and how they are integrated and important in protecting our plant-based food, feed and fiber supply. Further documents are in preparation for review by panels of program participants to address IT issues, surveillence, and lab infrastructure.
Publications
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Progress 07/01/22 to 06/30/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Members/representativesof the affiliated Tactical Sciences programs were engaged in report development for the Communications, Sstakeholder Engagement, and Workforce Development working groups. Changes/Problems:We continue to face challenges, as we have now lost four of our team members to health challenges or new employment. In threecases the individuals left the university.Further, the disruptions of COVID continue to ripple forward as participants of member programs are catching up. Rightly, this jointproject is not as high a priorty as catching up in their own programs. More recently, the PD has dealth with a serious health issue in his family that has taken him out of regular erticipation in the project. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are planning working group meetings for Surveillance, Laboratory Standars and Equipment Obsolescence, and Information Technology, remote meetings, to be follwed by an in-person meeting to compile consolidates conclusiosn and recomendations.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Working groups were convened and reporting was compiled.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Draper,M.A., Stack, J.P. Retallick, J., Nwadike, L., Vanier, M., Self,A., Day, C., Thurston, J., Rivers, D., and Zorrilla, W. 2022. Tactical Science Coordination Network: An effort to grow awareness and collaboration among biosecurity programs. https://ipmsymposium.org/2022/s&ecs.html#:~:text=10th%20International%20IPM%20Symposium%3A%20%22Implementing,2022%20%7C%20Denver%2C%20Colorado%2C%20USA
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Progress 07/01/21 to 06/30/22
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audiences are being expanded and will continue to include the leadership of each of the Tactical Sciences programs but also grow to include grassroots participants in the programs and stakeholders for federal government agencies and industry. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The June 2022 meeting brought together practitioners in all programs to become more aware of one another and find common ground. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have provided oral reporting to groups that have requested it and posted information to the website. We are just at a point now where there is sufficient substance to increase communication. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We have initiated a conversation in Design Thinking. A workshop will be held to help identify values that can be used in future promotion of the programs together and improve visibility and understanding of what we do. A workshop is planned in April 2023 to address how new plant pests are a threat to food security as an effect of climate change. Virtual meetings will be held to sustain relationships. An in-person forum will be held in June 2023 to build on working group outcomes. Educational deliverables will be competed for the programs. Podcasts will be posted to the website as well as additional content will be posted, such as e-versions of the educational materials above.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Baseline familiarity network analysis has been completed. That analysis will be repeated at the end of the project to measure increases in familiarity and collaboration. Completion of the SWOT analysis of each program and a cross-walk across the programs. Important issues continue to align over the identified working group topics. Strengths - National representation/Communication with Federal partners and agencies/Industry and commodity association board members/Ability to serve as an intermediate with up and down communications Weaknesses - Infrequency of in-person meetings and networking opportunities/Need to better communicate economic value needs of the programs/Sparse infrastructure and support staff to meet intended goals/Evaluation metrics are unclear from national level to regional/state components/Ideas do not flow both up and down/Leadership changes damage continuity of communication Opportunities - Greater visibility might increase funding/a marketing plan could increase visibility/Administrative resources from partner universities/Improving facilities & administration/Indirect costs should be allowed, but it is prohibited in some programs/Revisit length of leadership and membership tenure to promote continuity and efficacy/Become more action item oriented/Fund state IPM awardees to attend NIPMCC meetings/utilize virtual meetings for efficiency Threats - Insufficient funding/Leadership changes endanger success in long term goals/Limited participation dilutes potential impact/Administrative turnover leads to loss of understanding of program value and advocacy/Loss of human capital/Unclear purpose of some administrative bodies that lead programs. Podcast interviews are complete, being edited and plan to be posted in the coming year. Formed Working Groups to build relationships and identify common problems with potential solutions and shared activities - Communications, Surveillance, Workforce Development, Stakeholder Relations, IT Systems, Lab Standards and Equipment Obsolescence. In-person meeting held in June 2022 in Olathe Kansas with a face-to-face meeting that focused on three of the working groups - Communication, Workforce development and Stakeholder relations. Important points emerged. We need more communication to build community among these disparate programs and to build collaboration with state and federal agencies. Stakeholders in many programs are not clear and they do not seem to advocate for programs that serve their interest. Compelling stakeholders to understand our value should be a priority. The workforce development discussion exposed that the most important technical skills are diagnostics and data management, while the human skills of importance are communication, collaboration, people management and mentoring, and budgeting. Finally, there is a concern about succession planning in the leadership on individual programs, but substantial angst about how to accomplish that process. Uncertainty about the stability of the programs is a concern that hangs over people deciding to commit their careers to these programs.
Publications
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Website (http://tacticalsciences.org)
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Progress 07/01/20 to 06/30/21
Outputs
Target Audience:
Nothing Reported
Changes/Problems:TheCOVID pandemic continues to challenge the original project plan. We are making modifications as best we can to move toward the project goals. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?E-mail and virtual video conderencing. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Provided the pandemic settles down and travel is permitted, we will meet with an expanded group to build rlationship and find areas of shared opportunity. Working groups will be formed for primary areas that are identified throughthe SWOT process.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Virtual meetings were held to provide updates. The SWOT process is nearing completion. Two programs are yet to be completed. The introductory podcast series was completed. The webite is nearing completion.
Publications
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Progress 07/01/19 to 06/30/20
Outputs
Target Audience:At this stage of the project, the target audience is the leadership of each of the Tactical Sciences programs. We have engaged with one to four individals from each program: FADI programs (NPDN, NAHLN, EDEN), CPPM programs (ARDP, and EIP/RIPMC with NIPMCC), and therapeutic programs (IR-4 and MUADP). Changes/Problems:Two original team members left the program as it was beginning due to a retirement and another with health issues. Arebudgeting was also necessary toaddress a contract cost that was not adequately accounted for in the original proposal.Those modification have been made in the system and approved by the university and NIFA. The pandemic has led to moving all activities toavirtual format. That has caused substantial adjustment tohow the planned activites are conducted or delivered. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Invitations to partiocipate in virtual meetings were distributed, with an explanation of the goals of the Coordination Network. We are promoting our project as teh Tachtical Sciences Network (TSN). Corrdination will be inherent in our function. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The pandemic has casued a revised planning process for all anticipated activities.Two virtual meetings are scheduled for July and August 2020. Theywill be followed with quarterly communications. Participants will be surveyed for their perception of the outcomes of the initial virtual meetings. A website will be launched in calendar 2020.A baseline survey of familairity and connectedness across programswill be administered and SWOT analysis will be conducted via distance technology rather than face-to face as originally planned.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
At this point the project has fallen slightly behind schedule due to personnel changes and COVID-19 pandemic-related university shut-downs. We are focused on the first objective at this time. Plans were underway for a face to face meeting to be held in March and that was put on hold. The decision was made to move to a virtual format. That meeting was planned to occur in July, 2020. The July meeting format would not allow for all of the intended outcomes to be achieved, so the approach will be modified and some elements will be delayed to later in the year.
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