DLA News Archive

Category: Warfighter Always, Global Posture, Strong Partnerships, Whole of Government, Always Accountable

Colin Light (rear), Brian Licht (center) and Paul Turner (front), count pouches for carrying first aid supplies turned in at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during the first wall-to-wall inventory of all DLA Disposition Services sites.

April 27, 2020

Team honored for aiding with strategic goals

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — The team that devised and executed the first wall-to-wall inventory for Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services was recently honored with a Strategic Goals Award from DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Darrell Williams.

Navy Petty Officer Second Class Alejandro Garcia joins his fellow reservists practice social distancing along with their small arms skills during familiarization and practice training during their deployment supporting DLA Disposition Services operations in Afghanistan.

April 24, 2020

Afghanistan disposal mission continues amid COVID-19 challenges

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Dozens of reservists and civilian employees supporting Defense Logistics Agency operations in Afghanistan are maintaining critical defense missions during the coronavirus pandemic.

April 21, 2020

DLA provides critical mapping support, enables USNS Comfort’s COVID-19 NYC support

RICHMOND, VA — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation answered an emergency request for nautical charts from the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort in just three hours a little more than a week before it left Norfolk, Virginia, for New York City, where it’s providing critical COVID-19 support.

Soldiers load boxes of cots into a truck.

April 20, 2020

DLA helps Army donate 1,300 cots to the Philippines’ COVID-19 response

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The cancellation of an annual field exercise allowed for the quick donation of the excess bedding units to the longtime treaty partner.

Andy McElroy, a transportation driver at Marine Corps Logistics Command, helps Shipping and Receiving Technician Christopher Leymeister (seated on forklift) with the loading of personal protective suits the command provided to the Defense Logistics Agency as part of their effort to gather supplies for the COVID-19 response.

April 17, 2020

DLA, DTRA offers excess protective suits for COVID-19 with help from Marine Corps

ALBANY, Georgia — More than 40,000 protective suits earmarked for military response to chemical and biological hazards have been redirected to protect those battling COVID-19 after joint efforts by the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Marine Corps Logistics Command.

Jeremy Sexton, a project supervisor for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, locates N95 masks to prepare them for pickup by the Defense Logistics Agency to make them available for use by the U.S. Transportation Command through joint efforts by DLA Distribution and DLA Disposition Services. Photo by James Eason, DSCA

April 16, 2020

DLA Disposition Services makes excess military items available for COVID-19 response

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Government organizations and nationwide hospitals are getting valuable assets to confront the coronavirus pandemic from a Defense Department asset that manages the military’s excess equipment.

April 13, 2020

Eisenhower School Seminar goes virtual

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — Using the school’s online classroom, students at National Defense University’s Eisenhower School learned about DLA Energy during a virtual presentation, April 6. Due to COVID-19 health concerns, the defense fuel management seminar was held online with the more than 20 senior-level military officers and civilians from the U.S. and four international partners – Czech Republic, Lebanon, Norway and Poland.

Warehouse personnel prepare boxes of N95 masks for shipment to the Coast Guard.

April 13, 2020

Agency locates 47,000 excess N95 masks for Coast Guard responders

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A respirator lot was retrieved by DLA Disposition Services personnel from an excess property contract sales warehouse where they had been sent prior to the coronavirus outbreak.

Deborah Jackson (right), a project manager for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency at Albany, Georgia, and her colleagues Robert Brantley (center), a material expeditor, and Jeremy Sexton, a project supervisor, begin to inventory, prepare, and palletize the 154,000 N95 masks to prepare them for shipment.

April 13, 2020

Teamwork provides protective masks quickly

ALBANY, Georgia — Quick efforts by elements of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Transportation Command moved 154,000 N95 masks from storage at Albany, Georgia, to make them available to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services or the military in their response to COVID-19.

April 10, 2020

Despite COVID-19 delays, DLA delivers Seder kits to soldiers in Germany for Passover

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — An emergency order of Seder kits was held up, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on its way to help Jewish soldiers with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck, Germany, celebrate the Passover holiday. DLA reps maintained constant contact with the Army unit's chaplain throughout the delivery.