DLA News Archive

DLa's first group of regional commanders are, from left, Army Col. Derrin Williams, DLA CENTCOM & SOCOM; Army Col. Lisa Keough, DLA Europe & Africa; and Navy Capt. Timothy Daniels, DLA Pacific.

April 1, 2017

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — A long-awaited change to the law means DLA can use certain materials to enhance its support to the warfighter.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Air and Marine, Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) Deming New Mexico.

April 1, 2017

Aloft and Alert

Fort Belvoir — Tethered surveillance balloons, filled with helium from DLA Energy Aerospace Energy, are helping law enforcement defeat and deter the smuggling of people and narcotics into the United States.

Airmen guide a Minuteman III re-entry system onto a missile guidance set in September 1990. (U.S. Air Force photo)

April 1, 2017

Sustain and Deter

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — DLA Aviation has become the agency’s lead activity for support of the Minuteman III, an intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system.

Soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, participate in the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center annual ration field trials in July 2016. DLA veterinarians inspect military food supplies, supervise operational ration assembly plants, as well as supply and distribution points, and they approve food sources around the world.

April 1, 2017

Safety Squad

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — DLA leans on Army veterinarians to help ensure warfighters around the world eat safe, wholesome food.

Army Col. Derrin Williams, commander of DLA Central Command & Special Operations Command; Army Col. Lisa Keough, commander of DLA Europe & Africa; and Navy Capt. Timothy Daniels, commander of DLA Pacific discuss the recent command-and-control change to streamline how DLA supports customers in combatant commands — otherwise known as C2

April 1, 2017

A Conversation with ... DLA’s Regional Commanders

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — Army Col. Derrin Williams, commander of DLA Central Command & Special Operations Command; Army Col. Lisa Keough, commander of DLA Europe & Africa; and Navy Capt. Timothy Daniels, commander of DLA Pacific discuss the recent command-and-control change to streamline how DLA supports customers in combatant commands — otherwise known as C2

April 1, 2017

DLA NewsWire

Fort Belvoir, Virginia — News from across the agency is highlighted through DLA Newswire.

April 1, 2017

I am DLA

Kyu Sok Kwak, a supply planner for DLA Energy Pacific at Korea, explains the role he plays in DLA's mission.

The sinking of the Lusitania was the most notorious and deadly of several German submarine attacks in early 1917 -- attacks that were a key factor in the United States' decision to abandon a policy of neutrality and enter the war.

April 1, 2017

Logistics and American entry into the Great War

Wheat and thin strips of wood: Did these benign supplies really play a role in getting America into World War I?

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Navy Lt. Traci Irby, center, weapon system support program manager for the F/A-18, Navy Customer Facing Division farewells teammates, Mar. 3, 2017, in a piping ashore ceremony held on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. In an awards ceremony held Mar. 10, 2017, Irby received an exceptional meritorious service award for her performance during a 4-month assignment to Fleet Readiness South West at San Diego, California. Her performance on assignment led to implementing Deputy Materiel Management Chief military positions to be placed at each of the FRC sites.

March 31, 2017

New military positions connecting processes at FRC’s

Richmond, Virginia — From October 2015 through February 2016, Navy Lt. Traci Irby backfilled a position at DLA Aviation at the Navy Fleet Readiness Center Southwest in San Diego. Little did anyone know it would end up being the catalyst for the permanent implementation of military junior officer positions to be placed at each of the FRC sites DLA Aviation supports.

(second from right) DLA Energy Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Martin Chapin along with Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex senior officials cut the ceremonial ribbon signifying the Air Force’s largest energy savings performance contract at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, March 29. Photo by Kelly White. The largest energy savings contract in Air Force history is projected to save $626 million in energy and operational costs over 21 years.

March 31, 2017

DLA Energy commander attends ribbon-cutting ceremony at Tinker Air Force Base

Defense Logistics Agency Energy Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Martin Chapin participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony with other senior officials for the Air Force’s largest energy savings performance contract at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, March 29.