Mr. Chris Collins is the Director of Operations for DLA Weapons Support (Richmond), a major subordinate command of the Defense Logistics Agency. He assumed his position in October 2024.
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.
Mr. Collins serves as the senior civilian advisor to the DLA Weapons Support (Richmond) Commander Deputy Commander for the agency’s business operations related to aviation demand and supply chain support to U.S. military services, whole of government, and foreign military sales customers. He also oversees special projects and coordination across the DLA Enterprise on behalf of DLA Weapons Systems (Richmond).
Mr. Collins retired from active-duty military service in August 2011 after more than 22 years in the U.S. Marine Corps. In his following civilian career at then DLA Aviation, Mr. Collins most recently served as: Director of Customer Operations; Deputy Director of the U.S. Air Force Customer Facing Division; and Chief of the Fusion Operations Division – all in Richmond. Prior to these assignments, he was the DLA Aviation Deputy of the Forward Presence in support of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM) at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
During his military service, Mr. Collins’s experience included: Marine Corps Customer Relationship Management Cell Chief at DLA Aviation; Commanding Officer of the Fargo, North Dakota Military Entrance Processing Station; Assistant Supply Officer and Supply Officer of Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 26 (MALS-26); a Naval Postgraduate School Utilization tour with Marine Corps Systems Command; and various Aviation Supply Officer billets with MALS-39 and Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM-163). As an enlisted Marine, Mr. Collins served in various billets in the personnel, security force and ground supply specialties.
Mr. Collins holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Citadel and a Master of Science in Information Technology Management from the Naval Post Graduate School. He also is a graduate of the Department of Defense Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a graduate of the Advanced Program in Logistics and Technology from UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.