By Lt. Hanayo Arimoto, Navy Entomology Center of Excellence

As a budding Navy Entomologist with just over two years in the service, I’ve learned how important it is to build and maintain partnerships between centers. These collaborations are absolutely essential to the testing and evaluation of novel vector management control technology  and techniques used in force health protection.

I feel privileged to be a part of one such ongoing collaboration between The Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) and Florida Army National Guard’s Camp Blanding Joint Training Center (CBJTC). As a result of our thriving and successful partnership, we have been able to develop innovative products, techniques, and solutions to better protect deployed service members from blood-feeding and disease-transmitting arthropods.

The importance of CBJTC’s vast sprawling campus to NECE’s research capabilities cannot be understated. CBJTC provides NECE an invaluable testing ground, making research collaborations with many esteemed organizations possible. Our research partners include the CDC, the USDA, and many other institutions from academia and private industry. An additional benefit that the CBJTC provides is the opportunity for joint research and development efforts between the Services.

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