DLA Aviation News

June 26, 2017

Media invited to attend DLA Aviation change of command ceremony

RIchmond, Va. — Air Force Brig. Gen. Allan Day will relinquish command of the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation to Air Force Brig. Gen. Linda Hurry in a formal change of command ceremony at 10 a.m., June 28 at the Defense Supply Center Richmond’s Frank B. Lotts Conference Center.

July is the peak month for grill fires. Roughly half of the injuries involving grills are thermal burns. The National Fire Protection Association provides free downloadable grilling safety tips on their website at NFPA.org.

June 23, 2017

Fire Prevention Office provides summer fire safety tips

Richmond, Va. — With the upcoming holidays and being outdoors, the Fire Prevention Office would like to share a few fire safety tips to help you during the upcoming summer season.

Donald Bartlett, criminal intelligence analyst, Security and Emergency Services Division, DLA Installation Support Richmond, DSCR, gathers information from classified and unclassified reporting networks and assesses threats to DSCR, Virginia.

June 22, 2017

Partners in Protection: The Sound of Security

RIchmond, Va. — Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, leadership, which includes those from multiple Defense Logistics Agency organizations and other joint military and civilian Department of Defense Agencies, relies on competent intelligence analysts like Donald Bartlett to gather information from classified and unclassified reporting networks and to assess threats to the center.

Navy Cmdr. Keith Klemm receives the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation flag from DLA Aviation Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Allan Day June 16, 2017 during a DLA Aviation - Cherry Point, North Carolina, change of command ceremony held on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. Klemm replaces Navy Cmdr. James Neuman (right), who retires after a 24-year Navy career effective Sept. 1.

June 20, 2017

Aviation - Cherry Point bids farewell to Neuman, welcomes Klemm as new commander

Cherry Point, North Carolina — Navy Cmdr. Keith Klemm assumed command of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation – Cherry Point, North Carolina, from Navy Cmdr. James Neuman, who retired after a 24-year Navy career June 16 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Virginia’s extension request to implement the REAL ID Act expired June 6, 2017 and a second extension is currently under review. Virginia license holders with non-compliant IDs will required an escort when entering Defense Supply Center Richmond starting July 10. (Photo by Jackie Roberts)

June 16, 2017

Installation Support enforces Real ID Act for Virginia license holders beginning July 10

Richmond, Virginia — Employees following the Real ID Act implementation for family members whose only ID is issued by Virginia need to know that the extension issued for Virginia by the Department of Homeland Security expired June 6. Virginia is one of several states currently non-compliant with the Act.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Col. Mark Hirschinger, chief, Army Customer Facing Division, Customer Operations Directorate, cuts the Army birthday cake June 13, 2017 with Sgt. Tom Katsiyiannis, 392nd Army Band, Fort Lee, Virginia, at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. The cake ceremony is a long standing Army tradition where the soldier with longest time in service cuts the cake with the soldier with the least amount of time in service using the ceremonial military saber.

June 14, 2017

DLA celebrates the Army’s 242nd birthday!

Richmond, Virginia — Soldiers and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation employees celebrated the Army’s 242nd birthday with a ceremony at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation-San Diego employees Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Angeli Legardye, right, Contract Specialist Nicole Johnson, left, and Management Analyst Karen Higdon, middle, sort through clothing donated by employees for local non-profit organizations to distribute to families in need. The program collects clothing for newborn to 1 year-old children of families who have been identified by local nurses and social service agencies.

June 14, 2017

San Diego’s culture committee teams up with local NPOs

San Diego — The Culture Committee at Defense Logistics Agency Aviation-San Diego collaborated with a local non-profit organization and held a clothing drive in May to provide baby items for newborn to 1-year-olds throughout San Diego County.

Graybeards, retired Rear Adm. Michael Finley and retired Vice Adm. Michael Malone (from left to right), receive a brief on Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s logistical support of the Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet by DLA Aviation Deputy Commander Charlie Lilli, Chief of Staff at DLA Aviation Steve Kinskie, along with Navy Cmdr. Eric Lockett, Operations Officer, Navy Customer Facing Division, Customer Operations Directorate, DLA Aviation and Navy Capt. Mark Harris, Chief, Navy Customer Facing Division, Customer Operations Directorate, DLA Aviation June 6, 2017 at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

June 12, 2017

Graybeards briefed by DLA Aviation leadership

Richmond, Va. — Graybeards, retired Rear Adm. Michael Finley and retired Vice Adm. Michael Malone (from left to right), receive a brief on Defense Logistics Agency’s logistical support of the Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet June 6 at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Defense Logistics Agency Operations Research and Resource Analysis' Air Force Capt. Raymond Hill, wargaming program manager operations research analyst and David Jones practice wargaming strategies for the Advancing Globally Integrated Logistics Effort 2017 humanitarrian assistance/disaster relief wargame event hosted by the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, at Lockheed-Martin Center for Innovation in Suffolk, Virginia. May 17 - 25, 2017.

June 7, 2017

DORRA supports Joint Staff war game: AGILE 17

Suffolk, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency’s Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis team supported a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief war game hosted by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Logistics, May 8 -12 at Lockheed-Martin’s Center for Innovation in Suffolk, Virginia.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Army Maj. Alex Shimabukuro shakes the hand of Army Private Vennessa Baker, a native of Jamaica, during her naturalization ceremony May 30, 2017 at Fort Lee, Virginia’s Soldier Support Center. Also pictured: Army Lt. Col. Brian Neill, commander, 266th Quartermaster Battalion, center, and 266th Battalion Command Sergeant Major James Holmes, right.

June 5, 2017

DLA Aviation officer welcomes new citizens during naturalization ceremony at Fort Lee

Richmond, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Army Maj. Alex Shimabukuro stood before 28 service members from 18 countries May 30 as they joined the latest ranks of U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony held at Fort Lee, Virginia’s Soldier Support Center.

From left: Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Lynn Donnelly, deputy director, Procurement Process Support Directorate; Floyd Moore, deputy director, Supplier Operations Commodities Directorate; David Carns, director, Engineering Directorate; and Ronald Tatem, sourcing strategy specialist, Planning Process Directorate, offer leadership insight and answer questions during Aviation Industry Days May 16-17, 2017 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

June 1, 2017

Aviation Supplier Industry Days bring government, businesses together

RICHMOND, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Supplier Industry Days kicked off May 16 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, for a two-day conference bringing industry business leaders and owners to participate in discussions getting the DLA Aviation acquisition professionals representing warfighter demand and suppliers together.

Defense Logistics Agency's Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Office sponsored a quarterly diversity and inclusion training event titled “The 10 Lenses,” May 25, 2017 in the Lotts Conference Center, on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. Mark Williams, a Monster Government Solutions employee facilitated the training event demonstrating various ways to connect with others and internal and external customers, while leveraging diversity to increase productivity, innovation, and carry out the mission.

May 30, 2017

“The 10 lenses,” diversity inclusion training held in Richmond

Richmond, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation employees at Richmond, Virginia, attended a workshop for the quarterly diversity and inclusion training titled “The 10 Lenses,” May 25, in the Lotts Conference Center. The mandated training offered various ways for employees to connect with each other and their internal and external customers, while leveraging diversity to increase productivity, innovation, and carry out the mission.

Defense Logistics Agency Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis analysts Daniel Freas, William “Jack” Barrow, and Alex Diaz, from left, graduated from the Army Logistics University’s Operations Research and Resource Analysis Military Applications course at Fort Lee, Virginia, May 5, 2017.

May 25, 2017

DORRA employees graduate from 14-week Army Logistics University course

Richmond, Va. — Three Defense Logistics Agency Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis employees recently graduated from a prestigious Army training course.

Marine Corps Col. A. J. Manuel, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Marine Corps logistics lead, serves cake to Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Najieb, a V-22 weapon system customer account specialist, Marine Division, Customer Operations Directorate, DLA Aviation, during the DLA Aviation Marine Corps’ 105th aviation birthday celebration held May 22, 2017 in the Center Restaurant on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. The cake was made by Juan Delvalle, a retired food service Marine instructor from Fort Lee, Virginia’s Marine Corps Detachment Food Service School.

May 24, 2017

DLA Aviation Marines celebrate birth of Marine Aviation

Richmond, VA — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Marines will now eat cake twice a year in celebration of the Marine Corps Birthday and in recognition of the birth of Marine Aviation May 22, 1912.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Deputy Commander Charlie Lilli speaks to strategic supplier alliance executives, DLA Aviation leadership, and military customer senior leaders during a Senior Executive Partnership Roundtable, May 10, 2017 at the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

May 23, 2017

SEPRT held in Richmond, moving from managing parts to strategic solutions

Richmond, Virginia — The annual Senior Executive Partnership Roundtable was held at the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, May 10. The SEPRT gathers senior executives from strategic supplier alliances to meet with the Defense Logistics Agency leadership and military customer senior leaders to discuss general issues affecting DLA Aviation suppliers.