DLA News Archive

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

Leadership from DLA and the Department of Veterans Affairs pose after a ribbon cutting at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center March 7, 2019.

April 8, 2019

Medical strengthens its partnership with VA to support military, veteran health care

PHILADELPHIA — The partnership between the Defense Logistics Agency and the Veterans Affairs continues to grow as the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center begins using the Medical supply chain’s Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor program.

Generators arriving at the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office await use at a new training facility or whenever they might be needed for disaster response and rural investigations.

April 4, 2019

Small sites provide big support shipping excess property to new users

Blue Grass Amy Depot, Kentucky — Like the popular 2001 Army recruiting slogan, Disposal Support Representative William Thompson must see himself as “an army of one” as he serves multiple locations from his one-person DLA Disposition Services site at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.

What is this? A Naval Air Station Patuxent River anechoic chamber from the 1960s – enclosing a space so quiet that the decibel level inside is measured in the negative range – just one of thousands of outdated or unneeded items DLA expects to receive from the U.S. Navy during the course of its mammoth upcoming equipment divestiture project.

April 2, 2019

Agency assists with Navy property accounting

NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — DLA disposal reps are helping the U.S. Navy create a property divestiture playbook for its upcoming "Materiel Clean Sweep."

Michael Kelly, DLA Disposition Services’ operations chief at Warner Robins, and Paul Haynes Jr., DLA Disposition Services’ area manager there, take a look at some of the 48 transponders received from DLA Distribution that are rapidly being reutilized by the Navy to meet a critical parts need.

April 1, 2019

Agency rallies to support Navy’s critical part need

Warner Robins, Georgia — Two major subordinate commands of the Defense Logistics Agency worked together quickly when the Navy called for help acquiring critical aviation parts

Stranded hospital staff and family members are loaded into a former military truck to be transported home, away from flood waters in Fremont, Nebraska. After the emergency is over the truck will be converted for use in firefighting and then issued to a volunteer fire department.

March 21, 2019

Excess equipment provides aid in Nebraska floods

Fremont, Nebraska — As the flood waters rose in Nebraska, equipment provided by DLA Disposition Services was used to rescue people from the flood waters.

Don Phillips, DLA Installation Support at Battle Creek site director, uses a treadmill in the Federal Center’s Fitness Center to complete his run.

March 20, 2019

Having their pi and eating it too

Battle Creek, Michigan — Runners from the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center and Battle Creek’s Michigan Air National Guard Base tracked the numbers in their time March 14 as they honored one of the world’s most famous numbers -- 3.14.

March 20, 2019

DFSP Selma Railcar Replacement

Newly leased 30,000 gallon railcars with improved safety features are providing increased fuel capability at the Defense Fuel Support Point Selma, North Carolina.

Students using the Science Lab use the computers for their in research projects.

March 14, 2019

Former Air Force computers serve Alabama students

Prattville, Alabama — Computers that once supported airmen at Maxwell Air Force Base continue to help users soar as they help educate students in Prattville, Alabama.

graphic with a picture of a Navy member fueling an airplane

March 12, 2019

DLA Energy Fiscal 2018 Fact Book is online

Annually, the agency publishes a fact book to provide an organizational overview of the agency with a snapshot of the facts, figures and financial information from the previous fiscal year. The book includes a thorough overview of the organization, its structure and supporting business units as well as detailed information on sales, cost, inventory, contract actions and programs.

March 8, 2019

High school students get hands-on lab learning

The petroleum lab at DLA Energy Europe and Africa is training high school students how to test aviation fuels. Students attending local high schools in the Department of Defense Education Activity Europe serve as interns in the lab through the Career Practicum Student Internship Program which matches a student with a professional experience based on their interest in a career field.