SPADA Meeting Book

AOAC SPADA: Current Initiative

3 • Current initiative is jointly funded by: • The Department of the Undersecretary of the Army – Test  & Evaluation (DUSA T&E) • Joint Program Executive Office Joint Program Manager – Guardian Defense Biological Product Assurance Office  (JPM‐Guardian DBPAO )  (JPEO JPL ‐ CBRN Enabling  Biotechnologies) • Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory is prime  contractor. • AOAC INTERNATIONAL is the executing organization.   Overview of Current Initiative • In 2018, the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army,  Test & Evaluation (DUSA TE) and the  Joint Program  Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense,  JPM – Guardian, Defense Biological Program  Assurance Office (DBPAO) expressed interest in  developing consensus standards for the following  topics: – Preparation and use of Soil Testing Samples – Bacterial Strain Verification – In Silico PCR Analysis • The sponsors contracted with AOAC to develop these  standards under the SPADA voluntary consensus  model. 4