DLA News Archive

Category: Financial Stewardship

Feb. 11, 2021

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A thousand pieces of furniture were recently removed from remote Lajes Field facilities in the Azores, saving taxpayers from substantial disposal costs.

forklift operator moving a pallet of equipment

Feb. 9, 2021

Collaboration and understanding improves national supply chain

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — When an opportunity arose to improve the national supply chain, DLA Distribution Deputy Commander (former Chief of Staff) Perry Knight, Senior Executive Service, tasked Improvement Specialist, Sherry Amrhein, to put a team in place to start researching a solution to a U.S. General Services Administration export transshipment issue.

Ted Adams, left, works with Jhunar Medenilla in a lift basket used to help them hang netting to keep out birds that were fouling up a receiving area at DLA Disposition Services at Camp Arifjan.

Feb. 5, 2021

Good idea nets big savings

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — While Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employees usually market reusable materials to warfighters, the Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, staff recently became their own customers when a good idea helped solve a messy problem.

An MRAP with bullet marks and flat front tires is parked on a residential street.

Jan. 22, 2021

Former military vehicles shield police during Ohio shootout

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Armored personnel carriers received through DLA’s Law Enforcement Support Office kept officers safe from a hail of bullets in Springfield Jan. 2.

Detective Ben Parrish, Duplin County Sheriff’s Department, left, and Darryl Whaley, county garage supervisor, enjoy a moment with the forklift they acquired from DLA Disposition Services at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Oct. 16, 2020

Returning customer reaches $5 million mark in reusable items

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Defense Logistics Agency employees at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, recently resumed issuing usable excess property to transfer and donation customers as pandemic restrictions eased, allowing one customer to reach the $5 million mark in property acquired through the agency.

Sept. 15, 2020

Illinois school receives $55k in computers

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — More than $2 million in used and excess information technology has been donated through Computers For Learning in 2020.

Aug. 31, 2020

Property reuse pros place 755 fridges in new homes

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — There’ll be no appliances left behind with DLA Disposition Services on the case.

Students in Guam investigate new laptop computers.

Aug. 26, 2020

Guam students receive donated laptops

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The U.S. territory’s most remote elementary recently received 50 laptops through the agency-managed Computers For Learning military equipment donation process.

The first of five Alaska Medical Shelters awaits use after NMRTC employees raise the structure at the Navy’s medical clinic in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 7, 2020. The Defense Logistics Agency partnered with Air Force and Navy medical to provide shelters for COVID-19 screening at naval medical facilities in the Northeast.

July 28, 2020

DLA transfers portable shelters to Navy medical facilities for COVID-19 screening

NEWPORT, R.I. — The Defense Logistics Agency partnered with Air Force and Navy medical staffs in late June and early July to support COVID-19 screening at naval medical facilities in the Northeast.

Property Disposal Specialist Eddie Sanders moves some of the $330,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies intended for first responders fighting COVID-19 throughout Florida. The material is from DLA Disposition Services’ site at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

May 6, 2020

Agency sends excess medical supplies to Florida

Fort Bragg, North Carolina — First responders fighting COVID-19 in Florida are receiving more than 400 types of excess items from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ site at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.