Mr. Steve Kinskie is the Deputy Commander of DLA Weapons Support, a major subordinate command of the Defense Logistics Agency.
DLA Weapons Support is the aviation, land and maritime demand and supply chain manager for Defense Logistics Agency with more than 7,200 civilian and military personnel at 54 locations worldwide. Established Oct. 1, 2025, the MSC replaced the former DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime MSCs with a single unified organization and leverages expertise in both Richmond, Virginia, and Columbus, Ohio. DLA Weapons Support manages more than 4,300 major weapon systems and is the U.S. military integrated material manager for more than 2.4 million national stock number items, industrial retail supply and deport-level reparable acquisitions with annual sales exceeding $9.385 billion in FY25.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Kinskie served with distinction as the Executive Director of the DLA Strategic Programs and Integration Directorate. In this role, he provided strategic planning, programming, budgeting, and oversight to shape and align DLA’s capabilities to meet future warfighter requirements, leading efforts to ensure DLA’s capability sets remain responsive to evolving warfighter missions and environments. His leadership included oversight of the Mission Assurance Division, Decision Advantage, Joint Plans and Exercises Division, Strategic Business Planning Division, and Strategic Plans and Futures Division. Notably, he spearheaded the development and publication of DLA’s inaugural Global Posture Plan and directed a critical agency-wide strategic planning initiative that identified $8B in sustainment gaps across the Services and Combatant Commands.
Mr. Kinskie also served previously as the Strategic Advisor to the Director of Logistics Operations (J3). In this role, he was responsible for developing and executing strategies to create outcomes for DLA’s global customer base through the synchronization and end-to-end management of the agency supply chains. He provided oversight of the agency performance assessments priorities and goals focused on customer outcomes.
His civilian career began after retiring from active-duty military service as a U.S. Navy Captain in 2014, following three years as Operations Officer at then DLA Aviation, directing the activities of personnel across the organization to support planning, engineering, procurement, storage and distribution, and order management functions supporting its worldwide customers. He was responsible for the synchronization and end-to-end management of aviation Supply and Demand chain operations.
During his 26 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, Mr. Kinskie served in a variety of Supply Corps assignments. During his active-duty tenure, he served on five ships: USS Coral Sea (CV-43); USS Forrestal (CV-59); USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG-49); USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). While ashore, he served as the Director of Operations Research, Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia; Director of Readiness on the Staff of the Chief of Naval Operations; and ultimately as the Deputy Director, Ordnance and Logistics, U.S. Fleet Forces Command.
Mr. Kinskie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Washington, a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., and a Master of Science Degree in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.