Disposition Services News

Mike Cannon (seated, second from left in first row), DLA Disposition Services director, and Kathy Atkins-Nunez (seated, second from left in second row, DLA Disposition Services’ South-East Region director, listen as Thomas W. Harker, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, presents data findings from a recent Navy full financial statement audit.

April 9, 2019

Jacksonville, Florida — Senior leaders for DLA Disposition Services joined Thomas W. Harker, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, and Navy Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, deputy chief of naval operations, fleet readiness and logistics, for their audit roadshow March 27 and 28.

Generators arriving at the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office await use at a new training facility or whenever they might be needed for disaster response and rural investigations.

April 4, 2019

Small sites provide big support shipping excess property to new users

Blue Grass Amy Depot, Kentucky — Like the popular 2001 Army recruiting slogan, Disposal Support Representative William Thompson must see himself as “an army of one” as he serves multiple locations from his one-person DLA Disposition Services site at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.

What is this? A Naval Air Station Patuxent River anechoic chamber from the 1960s – enclosing a space so quiet that the decibel level inside is measured in the negative range – just one of thousands of outdated or unneeded items DLA expects to receive from the U.S. Navy during the course of its mammoth upcoming equipment divestiture project.

April 2, 2019

Agency assists with Navy property accounting

NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — DLA disposal reps are helping the U.S. Navy create a property divestiture playbook for its upcoming "Materiel Clean Sweep."

Michael Kelly, DLA Disposition Services’ operations chief at Warner Robins, and Paul Haynes Jr., DLA Disposition Services’ area manager there, take a look at some of the 48 transponders received from DLA Distribution that are rapidly being reutilized by the Navy to meet a critical parts need.

April 1, 2019

Agency rallies to support Navy’s critical part need

Warner Robins, Georgia — Two major subordinate commands of the Defense Logistics Agency worked together quickly when the Navy called for help acquiring critical aviation parts

Stranded hospital staff and family members are loaded into a former military truck to be transported home, away from flood waters in Fremont, Nebraska. After the emergency is over the truck will be converted for use in firefighting and then issued to a volunteer fire department.

March 21, 2019

Excess equipment provides aid in Nebraska floods

Fremont, Nebraska — As the flood waters rose in Nebraska, equipment provided by DLA Disposition Services was used to rescue people from the flood waters.

Don Phillips, DLA Installation Support at Battle Creek site director, uses a treadmill in the Federal Center’s Fitness Center to complete his run.

March 20, 2019

Having their pi and eating it too

Battle Creek, Michigan — Runners from the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center and Battle Creek’s Michigan Air National Guard Base tracked the numbers in their time March 14 as they honored one of the world’s most famous numbers -- 3.14.

Students using the Science Lab use the computers for their in research projects.

March 14, 2019

Former Air Force computers serve Alabama students

Prattville, Alabama — Computers that once supported airmen at Maxwell Air Force Base continue to help users soar as they help educate students in Prattville, Alabama.

Adam Ingrao, from the Michigan State University Extension Office, describes the Heroes to Hives program.

March 7, 2019

Bringing back the bees

Battle Creek, Michigan — Active duty military members, veterans and spouses gathered at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center March 6 to learn how they could help battle a threat, not to national security, but to the nation’s bee population.

Before and after views of the Anson Volunteer Fire Department's former military truck.

March 7, 2019

Agency provides Texas emergency response assets

Anson, Texas — A stranded motorist was recently rescued by volunteer firefighters in Texas using a five-ton truck once operated by the military.

Gigi Coleman works the crowd as her great aunt and daredevil pilot Bessie Coleman during a Black History Month event at DLA Disposition Services headquarters in Michigan Feb. 28.

March 1, 2019

Black history soars at Battle Creek event

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Bessie Coleman became the first woman of African-American and Native American descent to earn an international pilot's license in 1921. Nearly a hundred years later, her great niece recounts her story for DLA and the public.

Kevin Lambert, a teacher at Layton Christian Academy in Utah, oversees his students as they work on computers donated to the school through the DoD Computers for Learning Program and DLA Disposition Services.

Feb. 13, 2019

Utah students benefit from Computers for Learning

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — A small K-12 academy recently updated one of its computer labs with 60 used military laptops for only $2,500

Al Hight, director and chief diversity & inclusion equal employment opportunity manager for the Equal Employment Opportunity Office, shares highlights from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life like attending the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Feb. 8, 2019

Employees gather to remember King

Battle Creek, Michigan — Defense Logistics Agency employees gathered in the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center Feb. 7 for a belated commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be sunny, but it's still minus 25 degrees as Disposal Service Representative Rob De Long uses a Bobcat with a snow blower to clear snow from the truck scale.

Jan. 31, 2019

A cold day in New York

Ft. Drum, New York — A cold visitor from far north brought work to a halt at the DLA Disposition Services site in upstate New York.

Hurricane Michael created an estimated 15 million pounds of scrap and more than 450 uninhabitable buildings at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. DLA Disposition Services personnel scrap disposal coordination at the installation may last as long as six months.

Jan. 15, 2019

Hurricane recovery support ongoing at Tyndall AFB

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Area disposition personnel are putting in extra work to help Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base make the speediest recovery possible from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.

Army 1st Lt. Jason Bryant, currently interning with DLA Disposition Services, assists with an inventory at the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, site.

Jan. 14, 2019

Soldiers train for new careers while helping agency

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — DLA Disposition Services interns have shown how workforce development and warfighter support can merge during transition assistance training.

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