DLA News Archive

Aug. 26, 2024

Rail tank cars added to petroleum training program at Fort Barfoot

FORT BARFOOT, Va. — Logistics in Action: Article originally appeared on the Virginia National Guard website — After years of planning, the U.S. Forces Command added two rail tank cars to their Petroleum Operations Sustainment Training program, or POST, in support of the Fort Gregg-Adams-based 94th Training Division to enhance bulk fuel supply training efforts Aug. 23, 2024, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. 

Aug. 23, 2024

Tulsa Air National Guard Base opens vital infrastructure

Logistics in Action: Article originally appeared on the Oklahoma National Guard website — The Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 138th Fighter Wing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, August 13, 2024, celebrating the opening of a fuels complex and a commercial inspection facility.

Aug. 23, 2024

Air National Guardsmen Participate in Mobilization Training

Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Air National Guard website — As part of a pre-deployment exercise Aug. 12-18 The 102nd Logistics Readiness Squadron and 212th Engineering and Installation Squadron packaged and prepared equipment for military airlift recently. This exercise tested the Airmen’s capability to get materials and troops out the door if they are called to deploy or respond to an emergency at a moment’s notice.

Aug. 23, 2024

Agency exploring property disposition possibilities for Darwin-based Marines

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services wants to secure enduring reverse logistics support for rotational U.S. forces training and operating in northern Australia.

Aug. 23, 2024

DLA enterprise improvement project supports process redesign

NEW CUMBERLAND — Subject matter experts from across the Defense Logistics Agency enterprise gathered for a Rejected Disposal Workshop at DLA Distribution Headquarters in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, July 29 – Aug. 1. The workshop is part of a DLA improvement project that focuses on activities for two of the project phases. Moving forward, the team will begin identifying related tasks for each of their recommendations developed during the workshop and obtain the approval of the project champion.

Aug. 22, 2024

Army director of Enterprise Support visits DLA Distribution

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Robert Thurston, director, Enterprise Support, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Headquarters, Department of the Army, visited Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Headquarters in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, and toured the facilities at DLA Distribution Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, Aug. 14. During his visit, Thurston engaged with DLA Distribution leadership and staff, discussing topics including the Warehouse Execution System, Warehouse Management System implementation, and warehouse modernization and utilization. The overall goal of the visit focused on knowledge sharing relating to topics such as supply forecasting, enterprise resource planning modernization and prepositioned stock.

Aug. 22, 2024

Defense program awards DLA Land and Maritime engineer for new microcircuit device class

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime engineer is drawing Defense Department notice for his work with radiation hardened plastic encapsulated microcircuits.

Aug. 21, 2024

Marine Corps logistics command visits DLA Distribution, discusses contested logistics

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Keith D. Reventlow, commanding general, Marine Corps Logistics Command, and staff visited Defense Logistics Agency Distribution July 31 for a briefing on the current state of operations and discussion on how DLA Distribution can support the mission of the Marine Corps in a contested logistics environment.

Aug. 21, 2024

Looking back at the development of WMS

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Now that the Warehouse Management System is in use across all DLA Disposition Services sites, take a look at how people from different parts of the organization helped to make it all happen.

Aug. 20, 2024

DLA Aviation seeks industry help to overcome contested logistics challenges

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — Defense Department members, industry partners and Oklahoma government officials gathered here Aug. 5-8 at the Reed Conference Center, near Tinker Air Force Base, for the 18th annual “Tinker and the Primes” conference. Air Force Brig. Gen. Chad Ellsworth, DLA Aviation commander, and Cathy Contreras, DLA Aviation senior acquisition executive, were featured speakers at the annual event, which offered prime and secondary contractors, government agencies, academic institutions and small businesses a chance to discuss the conference’s theme: “Forging Readiness and Accelerating Innovation for Great Power Competition.”