DLA News Archive

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

May 28, 2024

DLA Distribution commander delivers remarks during New Cumberland Memorial Day event

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Navy Rear Adm. Grafton D. Chase, commander, Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, spoke as part of the 2024 New Cumberland Memorial Day event, May 27. These are his remarks as prepared.

May 23, 2024

Agency celebrates 2024 DLA Hall of Fame Inductees

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly hosted the event in which five former Defense Logistics Agency employees were inducted. Simerly not only thanked the inductees for their past contributions, he placed heavy emphasis on the need to innovate now more than ever before due to adversarial challenges in every domain, and at every level of war.

Lt. Gen Mark Simerly stands on stage with Brad Bunn and Chief Master Sgt. Alvin Dyer seated behind him with a background of flags

May 17, 2024

Agency’s culture and data opportunities highlighted at director’s town hall

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — An emphasis on data and culture were common themes through Defense Logistics Agency Director Army Lt. Gen Mark Simerly’s first global town hall May 16.

May 17, 2024

Expeditionary teams close out DEFENDER ’24 field ops

GERMERSHEIM, Germany — Agency expeditionary civilians and servicemembers share perspectives on exercise accomplishments, their teams, and visiting Germany during the largest U.S. Army-led exercise in Europe.

DLA Director Mark Simerly addresses the workforce on culture action plans after analyzing employee data from the 2023 DLA Culture Survey and Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

May 14, 2024

DLA Takes Action: LTG Simerly Addresses Culture Survey Feedback

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly, director, Defense Logistics Agency, addresses next steps after analyzing employee data from the 2023 DLA Culture Survey and Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

A portrait of Darlene Ferrante with a background featuring the DLA emblem

May 9, 2024

2024 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Darlene Ferrante

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A passion for helping others and a knack for building a diverse workforce that could meet the needs of America’s warfighters are traits of a DLA Distribution employee being inducted into the 2024 DLA Hall of Fame.

May 3, 2024

PaCE Group 46 turns a new page on leadership

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency’s Pathways to Career Excellence Program is making use of a unique tool to further prepare its participants with skills they can carry with them through their careers.

April 18, 2024

PaCE spotlight: Philip Shands

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — PaCE Philip Shands is due to complete his second year of PaCE training with the DLA Disposition Services San Joaquin site handling environmental duties.

A blond woman in a teal jacket looks at the camera and smiles while she stands in front of marble pillars, she is outside.

April 16, 2024

Spotlight: Sexual Assault Response Coordinator Krista Nawrocki

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. Meet Krista Nawrocki, DLA Disposition Services Sexual Assault Response Coordinator.

Woman wearing blue top stands along a railing with water and a bridge in the background.

April 15, 2024

Army veteran, 3-time sexual assault victim spreads hope for survivors

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A former soldier shares her journey to rock bottom after three sexual assaults, one of them from her fellow troops, in hopes of educating DLA employees on the aftermath of sexual trauma and inspiring courage among survivors.