DLA News Archive

An EF3 tornado ravaged areas of Albany, Georgia, uprooting trees and destroying buildings along its 70-mile path. DLA Information Operations provided assistance to DLA Distribution employees in getting back up and operating.

July 1, 2017

Fort Belvoir, VA — After a severe tornado, information technology teams helped to get Defense Logistics Agency Distribution colleagues up and running in less than two weeks.

A DLA Distribution Expeditionary deployable warehouse, complete with Distribution Standard System, is ready to support Operation Pacific Reach 2017.

July 1, 2017

Providing in Parallel

Two DLA Distribution centers helped move real-world materiel in support of an exercise in South Korea.

A Buck Company employee stirring molten metal to pull out impurities.

July 1, 2017

Anvils and Aircraft

DLA Aviation employees learned firsthand how two companies make aircraft parts for DLA through casting and forging.

Cathy Contreras, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s acquisition executive and head of contracting agency, discusses acquisition policies with Matthew Beebe, DLA Headquarters Acquisitions director, former DLA Aviation Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Allan Day, and Miquel Zayas, far right, supervisory procurement analyst, DLA Headquarters Acquisitions, March 10, 2017 during an Agency Management Review March 6 – 10, 2017 at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

July 1, 2017

A Conversation with ... Cathy Contreras

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s acquisition executive talks about her new role and items critical to acquisition success

Workers remove a 14-inch double-block and bleed valve as part of DLA’s closure of Defense Fuel Support Point San Pedro.

July 1, 2017

Clean Break

DLA Energy is helping save money while protecting a sensitive habitat in California.

The Outpost Food Truck awaits Soldiers to test out the food menus at the Joint Culinary Center of Excellence Field Feeding Training Area, Fort Lee, Virginia.

July 1, 2017

Chow Trucks

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support is partnering with the Army to help bring its food service into the 21st century with a pilot food truck program.

Workers load three 2008 Ford Escapes for their long journey from Hawaii to Moldova.

July 1, 2017

DLA NewsWire

DLA news from across the agency.

July 1, 2017

I am DLA

I am DLA: Highlighting James Secrist, a DLA Land and Maritime small business specialist.

Donnie Thompson, chief of deployments and training, for DLA Distribution Headquarters has been awarded the Global Distribution Excellence David Ennis DLA Distribution Community Service Award for 2016.

June 30, 2017

Distribution's Thompson awarded David Ennis Community Service Award

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pennsylvania — Donnie Thompson, chief of deployments and training, DLA Distribution Headquarters has been awarded the Global Distribution Excellence David Ennis DLA Distribution Community Service Award for 2016.

Defense Supply Center Richmond employees throw paper at a mock active shooter, then run away to demonstrate how to disrupt and disorient his thought processes during Active Shooter Awareness and Response Training on DSCR in Virginia, June 23, 2017 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center. (Photo by Jackie Roberts)

June 30, 2017

Partners in Protection: Active Shooter Awareness and Response Training held on DSCR

Richmond, Virginia — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond’s Security and Emergency Services Office held Active Shooter Awareness and Response Training at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, June 23 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center.