DLA Aviation News

Since returning from her Defense Logistics Agency Support Team-Kuwait deployment in 2015, Amelia Stanko understands better how the strategic contracts she works on, as a contracting officer in the Supply Operations Commodities Directorate of DLA Aviation, impact the warfighter. She says she get parts to the warfighter quicker by decreasing the number of tactical buys DLA Aviation makes. (May 10, 2017 Photo)

May 10, 2017

Personal experience: Why DST is important, why I would do it again

Richmond, Virginia — Many people have asked me why I volunteered to go to Kuwait. Even more have asked me if I was scared. If I am very honest, the answer is yes. But if I admitted that even to myself, I would not have gone.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Army Customer Facing Division soldiers and civilian employees answer customers' supportability questions April 27, 2017 at DLA's exhibit during the 2017 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

May 9, 2017

Aviation Army team staffs DLA exhibit at Nashville Conference

Richmond, Va. — Representatives from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Army Customer Facing Division staffed the DLA Exhibit at the annual Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit, April 26-28 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Airmen guide a Minuteman III re-entry system onto a missile guidance set in September 1990. (U.S. Air Force photo)

May 8, 2017

Sustain and Deter

Richmond, Va. — DLA Aviation has become the agency’s lead activity for support of the Minuteman III, an intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system.

Army Sgt. Maj. William Downey, senior enlisted advisor, Defense Logistics Agency Joint Reserve Force explains the route of the of fifth annual 5K Run/Walk for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month April 28, 2017 on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

May 2, 2017

Running for awareness: DSCR supports 80th Training Command’s 5K Run/Walk for Sexual Assault, Awareness Prevention Month

Richmond, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency employees at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, supported the U.S. Army Reserve 80th Training Command’s (The Army School System) fifth annual 5K Run/Walk for Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Month on April 28.

Demetrius McCray, a Manchester High School student looks on while Defense Logistics Agency Aviation engineering employees Aaron Vogt (blue shirt) and Kyle Hedrick (plaid shirt) demonstrate how to take a 3-dimensional scan of a red truck with a ROMER Absolute Arm with integrated scanner. 3-D imaging of parts is one method by which DLA Aviation is able to provide parts support for aging aircraft. Demetrius McCray, stands next to his mother, Marine Corps Master Sgt. Olga Mcray, both of whom attended Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia’s, Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day on DSCR April 27, 2017.

May 1, 2017

DLA’s future workforce visits DSCR for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Richmond, Va — More than 200 children visited Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia with their parents or grandparents April 27 as part of the 2017 Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

William Bullock Sr., emergency manager, DLA Installation Support at Richmond, reviews emergency processes with employees March 21, 2017 in the Center Restaurant after a tornado drill held on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

April 28, 2017

Tornados - seek shelter versus shelter-in-place

Richmond, Va — Employees were recently urged to "seek shelter" March 21 during a tornado response exercise conducted on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. What does seek shelter mean?

April 27, 2017

Automated phone line helps employees; customers reach DLA offices at DSCR

Richmond, Va — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia, has updated the DLA information phone line for Defense Supply Center Richmond. The automated number, 804-279-3861, can be used by employees, customers and the public to assist and connect them to various DLA Installation Support offices, as well as other DLA organizations and offices on post.

Aerial view of DLA Aviation Operations Center construction site Feb. 13 2017.

April 24, 2017

DLA Aviation Operations Center construction continues

Richmond, Virginia — Employees looking at the skyline toward Public Safety Building 201 will notice quite a change from October 2015, when ground was broken for the DLA Aviation Operations Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Operation security has always played a vital role in the safety of warfighters and contractors. During World War II, posters were created to emphasize this and similar informational campaigns still continue today. (Illustration by Army Sgt. Saul Rosa)

April 17, 2017

From the office to the barge, security matters at DSCR

Under the DLA Intelligence umbrella, the four critical areas that Defense Logistics Agency employees will encounter are personnel, operations security, information security and industrial.

Restoration Advisory Board members, Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia leadership, and concerned citizens came together April 10, 2017, at the Bensley Community Center in Chesterfield County for the quarterly Restoration Advisory Board meeting. Britt McMillan, a DLA environmental contractor with Arcadis, gives update on Operable Units 7 and 8.

April 14, 2017

Installation Support’s Environmental Division held quarterly RAB meeting

Richmond, Va — Restoration Advisory Board members, Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia, leadership and concerned citizens came together April 10, at the Bensley Community Center in Chesterfield County for the quarterly RAB meeting.

Michael Nelson, The Greater Richmond ARC contracted emergency dispatcher, manages multiple support programs and monitors in the Emergency Communications Center at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, during a tornado drill March 21, 2017.

April 12, 2017

More than just the voice on a phone: Dispatchers at DSCR

The Emergency Communications Center dispatchers at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, are a team of diverse individuals with personalities that complement their duties.

Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond held a ceremony, April 3, 2017, for the reopening of the Bettye Akermann Cobb Child Development Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. In celebration David Gibson, right, director of DLA Installation Support at Richmond, and the DLA Installation Support's Director Denise Miller, center, cut the cake as CCD Director Casey Chapman, back left, and Family Morale and Wellness Director Ursula Hickox, back right, share in the celebration.

April 12, 2017

DSCR’s CDC personnel transition to federal positions

Richmond, Virginia — The Bettye Ackerman-Cobb Child Development Center celebrated a reopening ceremony April 3, on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. The CDC provides developmental care for the installation's military and civilian workforce's children from ages six weeks to five years. The CDC transitioned from being under Bright Horizons management to now being under the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Directorate at Installation Support at Richmond.

Noel Romey, left, an information technology specialist with Defense Logistics Agency Information Operations at Richmond, attended the 32nd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference March 1-3, 2017 in San Diego California. Romey is trying out the portable Braille computer with a company representative at the conference.

April 10, 2017

Richmond employees participates in assistive technology conference

Richmond, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency 508 Compliance Program Office employees Noel Romey, information technology specialist and Christina Larsen, DLA 508 program manager, DLA Information Operations , who work at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, attended the 32nd California State University, Northridge, Assistive Technology Conference, March 1 – 3, in San Diego to learn about the latest technology to assist handicap employees.

(From left) Katrina Leverette, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation sexual assault response coordinator talks with Cassinda Thomas, Fort Lee USO Center director about resources available to victims of sexual assault in the Richmond area during a Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month resource fair held at the Defense Supply Center’s restaurant April 5, 2017. (Photo by Kimberly K. Fritz)

April 7, 2017

Sexual Assault Awareness, Prevention Month begins with resource fair

Katrina Leverette, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s sexual assault response coordinator or SARC, kicked off Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month with a resource fair at the Center Restaurant April 5 on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Defense Logistics Agency Finance Richmond Director Barbara Donegan (center) poses with staff members and DLA Finance Richmond Pathways to Career Excellence Program graduates during a graduation ceremony March 30, 2017 on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

April 4, 2017

DLA graduates newest employees from two-year training program

RIchmond, Va. — Surrounded by family, friends and co-workers, 29 DLA Aviation and DLA Finance Pathways to Career Excellence (PaCE) Program graduates joined the ranks of the DLA workforce March 30 in a ceremony held in the Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.