DLA News Archive

Category: Warfighter Always

Mike Cannon (seated, second from left in first row), DLA Disposition Services director, and Kathy Atkins-Nunez (seated, second from left in second row, DLA Disposition Services’ South-East Region director, listen as Thomas W. Harker, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, presents data findings from a recent Navy full financial statement audit.

April 9, 2019

Jacksonville, Florida — Senior leaders for DLA Disposition Services joined Thomas W. Harker, assistant secretary of the Navy for financial management and comptroller, and Navy Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, deputy chief of naval operations, fleet readiness and logistics, for their audit roadshow March 27 and 28.

What is this? A Naval Air Station Patuxent River anechoic chamber from the 1960s – enclosing a space so quiet that the decibel level inside is measured in the negative range – just one of thousands of outdated or unneeded items DLA expects to receive from the U.S. Navy during the course of its mammoth upcoming equipment divestiture project.

April 2, 2019

Agency assists with Navy property accounting

NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — DLA disposal reps are helping the U.S. Navy create a property divestiture playbook for its upcoming "Materiel Clean Sweep."

Michael Kelly, DLA Disposition Services’ operations chief at Warner Robins, and Paul Haynes Jr., DLA Disposition Services’ area manager there, take a look at some of the 48 transponders received from DLA Distribution that are rapidly being reutilized by the Navy to meet a critical parts need.

April 1, 2019

Agency rallies to support Navy’s critical part need

Warner Robins, Georgia — Two major subordinate commands of the Defense Logistics Agency worked together quickly when the Navy called for help acquiring critical aviation parts

March 20, 2019

DFSP Selma Railcar Replacement

Newly leased 30,000 gallon railcars with improved safety features are providing increased fuel capability at the Defense Fuel Support Point Selma, North Carolina.

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Fernando Javier administers a typhoid shot to a patient in a medical room aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

March 7, 2019

Medical helps new Navy ships join the fleet

PHILADELPHIA — As the U.S. Navy continues to build new ships, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical supply chain helps the ships meet their medical requirements.

three people in uniform stand in front of a fuel truck

Feb. 27, 2019

Driving Warfighter Support

As part of his immersion as the Defense Logistics Agency Energy Commander, Air Force Brig. Gen. Albert Miller visited Joint Base Langley-Eustis Fuels Management Flight Jan. 23.

Feb. 13, 2019

Inspecting, repairing Warfighter Fuel Storage Tanks

DLA Energy has been meeting with industry and government partners on the maintenance and repair of fuel storage tanks to compare and contrast commercial and DoD tank sustainment processes.

Hurricane Michael created an estimated 15 million pounds of scrap and more than 450 uninhabitable buildings at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. DLA Disposition Services personnel scrap disposal coordination at the installation may last as long as six months.

Jan. 15, 2019

Hurricane recovery support ongoing at Tyndall AFB

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Area disposition personnel are putting in extra work to help Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base make the speediest recovery possible from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.

Army 1st Lt. Jason Bryant, currently interning with DLA Disposition Services, assists with an inventory at the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, site.

Jan. 14, 2019

Soldiers train for new careers while helping agency

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — DLA Disposition Services interns have shown how workforce development and warfighter support can merge during transition assistance training.

Robert Helgeson (left), U.S. Central Command’s deputy director for logistics and engineering, listens as LaTanya Callahan (center), area manager, and Navy Cmdr. Max Becker, officer in charge of DLA Disposition Services in Afghanistan, explain yard operations.

Jan. 10, 2019

Bagram staff shares mission info with senior logistics leader

Bagram, Afghanistan — Defense Logistics Agency employees serving in Bagram, Afghanistan, had the chance to enhance warfighter trust and get their New Year off to a good start with a visit from a senior logistician on the U.S. Central Command staff.