DLA News Archive

July 21, 2023

New training program fights against suicide

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — To increase suicide prevention awareness, Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation Family Program Manager and Licensed Master Social Worker Lisa Grenon invited Scott Teichmer, a member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Calhoun County and Question, Persuade, Refer Institute master trainer, to the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ most recent Leadership Summit for a new type of training.

July 18, 2023

Desert aerospace education boosted by DLA used property stocks

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The world’s biggest privately funded air and space museum has long relied on DLA’s military surplus and excess property pipeline to help execute its education mission.

July 17, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Natalie Coulson

Battle Creek, Mich — The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

July 12, 2023

WMS rollout reaches 6-month milestone

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Disposition Services is transitioning to the Warehouse Management System and over the last six months has moved nine different sites to the new system and adapted training methods during the process.

July 3, 2023

PaCE Spotlight: Elizabeth Norvey

Battle Creek, Mich. — Elizabeth Norvey is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Program, group 42 beginning in 2021. For her second year in the PaCE Program, she was placed at the DLA Disposition Services site in Columbus, Ohio.

June 30, 2023

Acquisition powerhouses unite: DLA's contracting summit fuels collaboration and growth

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Over the course of a two-day summit, DLA acquisitions personnel assessed regulations, developed effective plans of action for process improvements and further advanced the agency’s capabilities in Battle Creek, Michigan.

June 26, 2023

Leadership Spotlight:  Nicholas (Nick) Janik

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Nick has served the country for 21 years, is a proud father and husband, and enjoys woodworking.

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.

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.