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

Tugboats assist USNS Comfort up the Hudson River as the hospital ship enters New York City. Federal, state, and local agencies provide a security escort for the patrol. Actions by logistics data experts at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services will make it easier for the crew to acquire parts for ship. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Hupp)

April 7, 2020

Logistics data experts help fight against COVID-19

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — It takes a lot of supplies and many types of equipment to fight a pandemic. Recently, logistics data experts at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services used their skills to help customers find materials they need to battle the COVID-19 virus.

A former military ambulance is parked on a street corner food donation location.

April 7, 2020

School district uses excess Guard trucks to deliver meals

Battle Creek, Mich. — Pennsylvania’s West Mifflin Area School District is dishing out 800 meals daily with trucks acquired for free through DLA.

Property Disposal Specialist Keneicsha Monroe examines some ventilators at the DLA Disposition Services site at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Monroe and other specialists at all DLA Disposition Services sites having been working to locate high demand medical supplies and equipment in the excess property inventory to have items ready for reutilization, transfer and donation requisitions in support of the COVID-19 response.

March 20, 2020

Agency answers call for medical equipment

Battle Creek, Michigan — The employees at the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services locations have a long history of making excess military equipment available to help those dealing with emergencies and natural disasters, and the COVID-19 response is no exception.

March 16, 2020

Fuel tanker inspection video saves money, educates soldiers

A new DLA Energy video demonstrates military fuel truck inspection procedures saving the government thousands of dollars and man hours. Army Soldiers will use the video, which details the high quality standards of capitalized jet fuel through the transportation process, to prepare for the U.S. Army Reserve’s annual Quartermaster Liquid Logistics Exercise.

Soldiers from varying brigades and units throughout the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), properly secure equipment brought in to the Division Excess Consolidation Point as part of Operations Clean Eagle and Eagle Sweep. The purpose of both of these operations is to remove excess from across the division, eliminate waste and increase the division's overall readiness posture.

March 6, 2020

Agency helps cut Army excess and enhance readiness

Fort Campbell, Kentucky — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employees at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have been hard at work assisting Army units there with their continued efforts to enhance readiness by getting rid of what they no longer need.

Riggers watch as a crane lifts a massive piece of submarine hull onto a barge for disposal.

March 5, 2020

Scrap partnership to save Navy millions

Battle Creek, Mich. — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility is now disposing of its nuclear submarine scrap through a Demilitarization as Condition of Sale contract offered through DLA Disposition Services.

March 4, 2020

World Help needs DLA's help

Battle Creek, Mich. — A DLA Disposition Services excess equipment donation customer has distributed millions in obsolete and excess military equipment to high-need nations around the world since 2010.

Emergency responders extinguish fires caused by a CV-22 Osprey aircraft crash on Eglin Range at Hurlburt Field, Fla., June 13, 2012.

March 3, 2020

Eglin staff puts fallen Osprey to rest

Hurlburt Field, Florida — Defense Logistics Agency employees at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, processed the wreckage from a 2012 aircraft mishap through a different disposal route than many other airframes.

Feb. 18, 2020

Building petroleum leaders

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — More than 180 representatives from the military petroleum community engaged in fuel logistics discussions during the 19th annual Joint Petroleum Seminar at the McNamara Headquarters Complex at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Feb. 3-7.

Feb. 5, 2020

DLA explores business opportunities with Army Corps of Engineers

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Representatives from DLA Energy and four other DLA major subordinate commands traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, to explore business opportunities within the Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, Jan. 15.