DLA News Archive

Dec. 6, 2019

DLA leaders highlight research, development efforts at Defense Manufacturing Conference

Phoenix, Arizona — Leaders from government, industry and academia met in Arizona this week for the four-day Defense Manufacturing Conference, based on the theme “Defense Manufacturing Focused on Warfighter Dominance.”

Dec. 6, 2019

DLA Energy dominates recognition awards

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — DLA Energy employees excelled in the 52nd Annual DLA Employee Recognition Awards earning 13 awards, more than any other DLA military support command or directorate. 

Dec. 6, 2019

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Dec. 5, 2019

Mentor program continues philanthropy, expands workforce impact

PHILADELPHIA — Employees from a Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support mentoring program assembled care packages and wrote cards for deployed warfighters to support morale and resiliency at an event Dec. 3 in Philadelphia. The program began in the Industrial Hardware supply chain, but has become a cross-organizational collaborative program with mentors and mentees from all of Troop support’s supply chains.

Dec. 5, 2019

Cannon wraps up year with worldwide town hall

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon addressed his command’s worldwide workforce during an end-of-year town hall Dec. 3 in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Dec. 5, 2019

FMWR promoting resiliency and readiness on Defense Supply Center Richmond

RICHMOND, VA — At high noon, on the first Wednesday of every month, for the past five months, anywhere from two to a dozen people gathered at either Parker Pond Pavilion or the Community Center on the Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, to learn different ways to recharge their mental and physical batteries.

Dec. 5, 2019

Maintainers ensure F-35A stays safe, stealthy

Hill Air Force Base, Utah — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the 388th Fighter Wing website — If every other system on a fighter aircraft fails, there’s one that has to work. The ejection system.

Dec. 5, 2019

ASOC Futures Branch chief predicts greater agency role in force sustainment

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — Rick Iwanski heads up a small branch in the Defense Logistics Agency’s Agency Synchronization Operations Center and works to strengthen relationships with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to support warfighters’ future supply and sustainment needs.

Dec. 4, 2019

Paul Riggs joins the PaCE program

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Paul Riggs is assigned to the DLA Pathways to Career Excellence Program as a Property Disposal Specialist with Environmental duties.

Dec. 4, 2019

Max Phillips joins the PaCE program

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Max Phillips is assigned to the DLA Pathways to Career Excellence Program as a Property Disposal Specialist with Environmental duties and will be assigned to our Field Site at Eglin AFB following his completion of Phase One.