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A man in a blue shirt looks at a large try of glass slides in a try.

June 23, 2023

DLA helps with digital scanning of century-old glass pathology slides

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Joint Pathology Center possesses the nation’s oldest pathology tissue repository and one of the largest in the world with over 55 million glass slides and 30 million tissue blocks. For more than a century, its specialists have collected diseased tissue samples, preserving them for medical researchers of the future.

Super Hornet called the Rhino because of protrusion on front of

June 22, 2023

Disposition Services efforts in Jacksonville encompass even the largest of items

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services site in Jacksonville, Florida, recently assisted in the demilitarization efforts of 72 individual aircraft center barrels.

June 21, 2023

“Lifeless” breakroom redone with regional Italian flair

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Massimo’s Bistro, named for a longtime local national agency employee at the Aviano site, opened to critical acclaim in May.

Scanning and Conversion Graphic to show benefits which are easier search/retrieval of documents and data, protection of critical information, disaster recovery, better records management, reduced storage costs and more efficient information sharing.

June 19, 2023

Editorial: DLA helps DOD meet digital records requirements by June 2024

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services - Document Services is helping the Defense Department digitize paper records to meet National Archives and Records Administration requirements by June 2024.

Official portrait of a male with an American flag in the background.

June 18, 2023

PaCE Spotlight: Ryan Kirby

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Ryan Kirby is an Environmental Operations Monitor for Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Disposal Services Directorate Europe and Africa region in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He participated in the Pathways to Career Excellence Program from 2015 to 2017.

Man, woman, and three young boys stand in front of airplane

June 16, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Jason Roberts

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Meet Jason Roberts, woodworker, Navy veteran and proud father.

June 12, 2023

Lejeune supplies training aides one vehicle at a time

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Disposition Services Lejeune site recently provided multiple military service units with valuable training tools in the form of demilitarized vehicles.

Mother, two children and father sit in stadium seats

June 5, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Terra Nguyen

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Terra is the Equipment Management Solutions Director and has been with the agency for almost two decades.

A man in a hardhat constructs a temporary shelter from metal poles.

June 2, 2023

ACOR to bring deployment skill training to Battle Creek

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — This summer’ expeditionary readiness will help get civilian property disposal personnel and new agency reserve military members “back to basics” on reverse logistics know-how.

June 1, 2023

AANHPI Heritage Month coordinator helps grow cultural appreciation in Pearl Harbor

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Hawaiian-raised DLA environmental protection specialist is helping familiarize her colleagues with Asian and Pacific cultures.