DLA News Archive

Category: Logistics Operations

Before and after photos of the storage shed cleaned and organized by DLA Disposal Policy and Compliance employees for their team-building exercise/community project May 10.

May 11, 2016

DLA employee team-building project serves community

Employees of the Defense Logistics Agency Disposal Policy and Compliance Division volunteered their time and logistics skills May 10 to help a local Virginia nonprofit — while fostering teamwork among their own group.

DLA Logistics Operations Deputy Director Mike Scott applauds the ‘great work’ being done by operational contract support personnel at DLA and the military services. Photo by Beth Reece

May 4, 2016

Operational contract support planners discuss progress, way ahead

Operational contract support planners from the Defense Logistics Agency, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff logistics directorate met April 26-28 in Springfield, Virginia, to share best practices for operational contract support and reinforce the need for a joint-service approach.

Dignity kits and other items provided through DLA are assembled and packaged for delivery to refugees and internally displaced persons in the Middle East.

Feb. 18, 2016

DLA personnel join counterparts to help save lives of civilians fleeing war, atrocities in Middle East

Defense Logistics Agency personnel recently helped save numerous civilian lives by delivering millions of critical non-food items to refugees and migrants in the Middle East before the arrival of winter, in collaboration with other federal agencies.

Joint Logistics Operations Center Executive Officer and retired Army Col. Eugene Shearer (second from left) and his family joined Canadian Ambassador to the United States Gary Doer (left) at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Ambassador Doer presented the Canadian Meritorious Service Medal to Shearer for his service on behalf of Canadians as chief of the Combined Joint Logistics Branch within Regional Command South, Afghanistan, from May 2010 to June 2011. Photo by Keegan Bursaw

Dec. 29, 2015

DLA employee receives Canadian Meritorious Service Medal

Washington, DC — DLA’s Eugene Shearer received Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal on Dec. 15 for his contributions as chief of the Combined Joint Logistics Branch of Regional Command South, Afghanistan, in 2010 and 2011, while serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army.