DLA News Archive

Category: Financial Stewardship

A man and a woman evaluate used military optics in an office space.

June 24, 2025

DLA eyes strategic materials recapture from excess property

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — With the nation’s defense industry facing diminished access to rare earths, the agency will closely evaluate its surplus property stream for additional materials recycling opportunities.

Large vehicles lined up in an outdoor lot.

June 12, 2025

Rural NC county taps LESO for emergency response preparedness

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Martin County law enforcement turn to DLA’s surplus property inventory to meet readiness needs.

Air Force personnel pose in front of a crate containing WMD response equipment.

April 4, 2025

Ramstein taps DLA property reuse stream for WMD threat response system

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The inactivation of a Germany-based Army Reserve Weapons of Mass Destruction response team recently freed up a $1 million collection of chemical sensors, detectors, and protective personal gear quickly scooped up by the Air Force’s 435th Air Ground Operations Wing.

Retail warehouse full of shelves with goods in cartons, with pallets and forklifts. Product distribution center. Generative AI.

March 7, 2025

Top 50 optimizes excess property stocks

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — New turn in document markings will help DLA reverse logisticians shelve more high demand items for reutilization and donation.

Feb. 11, 2025

Veteran-owned small businesses can seek DOD surplus property

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An amendment signed in 2019 grants veteran-owned small businesses the opportunity to request property from the ever-evolving DLA Disposition Services surplus military equipment inventory.

High school students sit at long lab tables working on laptops while a teacher stands looking at them in a class room.

Jan. 9, 2025

Excess military computers donated to rural Ohio schools through DLA

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The National Trail Local School District in Paris, Ohio, is a small, rural district in a farming community where education funds are tight. Yet, thanks to the efforts of District Technology Coordinator Brian Pool, students there are thriving in the digital age with some help from Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services and DOD Computers for Learning.

A tracked vehicle sits in an icy parking lot.

Dec. 26, 2024

2024 Highlights: Operations

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The directorate at the heart of the agency’s reverse logistics business rolls into the new year with a clear focus on strengthening data analytics and fine-tuning customer service.

A woman holds a clipboard as she writes on it. she is standing in a Wearhouse looking towards hospital beds.

Dec. 23, 2024

2024 Highlights: Mid America

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ Mid-America region had what Region Director Jessie Parisano called “a great 2024.”

Men drive a firefighting truck around an off-road vehicle testing area.

Dec. 6, 2024

Michigan wildfire workshop promotes military surplus equipment repurposing

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An annual gathering of wildfire response experts in Roscommon highlights federally-supported Firefighter Property Program benefits and the conversion of DLA-sourced former military vehicles and equipment to modern firefighting apparatus.

A man talks with others in an industrial outdoor setting.

Aug. 9, 2024

Pearl Harbor team facilitates emergency $600k Maui wastewater equipment donation

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — DLA Disposition Services Pearl Harbor recently played a pivotal role in assisting Maui County following the catastrophic failure of critical centrifuges.