DLA News Archive

Category: Small Business, Strong Partnerships

A variety of chairs await transport from the DLA Disposition Services site in Bahrain to the local Red Crescent Society where they will help those in need.

May 6, 2019

Excess items avoid landfill to help people in need

Naval Support Activity Bahrain — It took more than luck to complete a long and challenging donation process to provide excess items to Bahrain’s Red Crescent Society, but the charity’s local leaders recently wished good fortune on Defense Logistics Agency employees there for extra efforts from agency employees to provide support.

April 30, 2019

Hill AFB Energy Conservation

Budgeting energy-efficient upgrades to save millions of dollars can require innovative thinking. In 2018, Defense Logistics Agency Energy helped Hill Air Force Base, Utah, utilize over $4 million through energy incentives and bill credits for a $91.1 million Energy Savings Performance Contract.

DLA disposal experts provide observation and guidance as New Zealand Defence Force personnel demilitarize a naval frigate-based fire control system at Devonport Naval Base in Auckland, New Zealand in early April.

April 25, 2019

Demil training a success in New Zealand

DEVONPORT NAVAL BASE, New Zealand — A pair of the agency’s Pacific region demilitarization experts traveled to Auckland in early April to help an ally’s navy ready for upcoming frigate refits.

Lewis Sieber, fire equipment manager of the Nebraska Forest Service navigates through flood water searching for stranded people in a six-wheeled drive cargo truck issued through the DoD Firefighter Program. Photo provided by the Nebraska Forest Service

April 12, 2019

Excess to the rescue

Battle Creek, Michigan — Equipment from DLA Disposition Services helped save lives as Nebraska recently faced its worst flooding of the past 50 years.

Nina Kessler, a U.S. Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance humanitarian assistance advisor, left, Dorothy O’Connell, a DLA Troop Support J3/5 Plans and Operations customer support liaison, center, and Elizabeth Smithwick, a USAID OFDA humanitarian assistance advisor, right, pose for a photo at DLA Troop Support April 3, 2019 in Philadelphia.

April 9, 2019

Humanitarian course keeps Troop Support employees ready for USAID operations

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support hosted the Joint Humanitarian Operations Course led by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in Philadelphia April 2-3.

Leadership from DLA and the Department of Veterans Affairs pose after a ribbon cutting at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center March 7, 2019.

April 8, 2019

Medical strengthens its partnership with VA to support military, veteran health care

PHILADELPHIA — The partnership between the Defense Logistics Agency and the Veterans Affairs continues to grow as the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center begins using the Medical supply chain’s Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor program.

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.

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.

graphic with a picture of a Navy member fueling an airplane

March 12, 2019

DLA Energy Fiscal 2018 Fact Book is online

Annually, the agency publishes a fact book to provide an organizational overview of the agency with a snapshot of the facts, figures and financial information from the previous fiscal year. The book includes a thorough overview of the organization, its structure and supporting business units as well as detailed information on sales, cost, inventory, contract actions and programs.