DLA News Archive

Category: Equal Employment and Opportunity, Human Resources, SAPR, People and Culture

Defense Logistics Agency Hall of Fame graphic.

March 16, 2021

Nominations for DLA Hall of Fame due May 10

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Current and former DLA employees may nominate any former agency civilians or military members, living or deceased to the DLA Hall of Fame. Nominations will be accepted until May 10.

March 15, 2021

Norfolk-based materials examiner honored

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Longtime contractor Robert Montgomery earned his first Employee of the Quarter recognition after just a year as a DOD federal civilian employee.

March 12, 2021

You Can’t Spell Aviation without a “V”

RICHMOND, VA — Not long after returning from a rotational assignment with the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., in January 2020, Floyd Moore was named director of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Engineering Directorate. Once in this new role, he said the goal was simple.

Amanda Foss, a material handler at DLA Aviation at Ogden on Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah.

March 8, 2021

Employee Spotlight: Amanda Foss

RICHMOND, VA — Employee spotlight regularly features outstanding non-supervisory personnel from throughout the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and other DLA employees on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. Organizational directors may submit names of employees they wish to feature in this column to DLA Aviation Public Affairs. For more information, call (804) 279-3139.

Feb. 27, 2021

Gimcheon ops chief honored

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Pat Leverett was named DLA Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter for his outstanding contributions in South Korea at the start of fiscal 2021.

Feb. 25, 2021

Barstow site lead honored for 1st quarter performance

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Heath Buswell was recently named DLA Disposition Services Employee of the Quarter.

Dennis Keener, one of the 116 team members honored, operates a forklift to unload a Hummer turned into the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services at Red River, Texas, Feb. 25, 2020

Feb. 8, 2021

Mid-America team honored with agency award

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Defense Logistics Agency employees from DLA Disposition Services’ Mid-America region were among the personnel honored in the DLA Director's Strategic Goals Award for the 4th Quarter of fiscal 2020.

Mark Aicher wearing blue shirt with trees in the background overlaid on a navy blue backdrop

Feb. 1, 2021

Leadership Spotlight: Mark Aicher

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Get to know Mark Aicher, DLA Disposition Services director of business support.

ec. Jean-Rene Louis, a nutrition case specialist in the Department of Nutrition chooses a beverage to go with his meal in the Brooke Army Medical Center dining facility, Dec. 8, 2020. Staff at BAMC’s Nutrition Department encourage everyone to focus on eating healthy during the holiday season and throughout the year. (U.S. Army photo by Daniel Calderón)

Jan. 29, 2021

Online class encourages healthier choices in 2021

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Making healthier choices is a common resolution to start a new year, and the Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation Program offered help Jan. 26 with a virtual class to encourage wiser choices in our diets.

November DLA Aviation Leadership Award Winner

Jan. 25, 2021

Darrin Clark honored for transformative leadership with November Aviation Leadership Award

Richmond, Va. — One of the four dimensions of transformative leadership recognized with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Leadership Award is inspirational motivation. Materiel Management Branch Chief Darrin Clark of DLA Aviation at San Diego is a man who embodies this trait through and through.