DLA News Archive

Category: Financial Stewardship

Soldiers from varying brigades and units throughout the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), properly secure equipment brought in to the Division Excess Consolidation Point as part of Operations Clean Eagle and Eagle Sweep. The purpose of both of these operations is to remove excess from across the division, eliminate waste and increase the division's overall readiness posture.

March 6, 2020

Agency helps cut Army excess and enhance readiness

Fort Campbell, Kentucky — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employees at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have been hard at work assisting Army units there with their continued efforts to enhance readiness by getting rid of what they no longer need.

Riggers watch as a crane lifts a massive piece of submarine hull onto a barge for disposal.

March 5, 2020

Scrap partnership to save Navy millions

Battle Creek, Mich. — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility is now disposing of its nuclear submarine scrap through a Demilitarization as Condition of Sale contract offered through DLA Disposition Services.

Eight graders at Alleluia Community School in Augusta, Georgia, try out their math skills using a new application on the Kindle Fire devices their school recently received through the Defense Logistics Agency.

Feb. 5, 2020

New devices heat up classes in Georgia school

Augusta, Georgia — Students at Alleluia Community School in Augusta, Georgia, were able to start the New Year with some new helpers to aid their learning thanks to the Defense Department’s Computers for Learning program managed by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Various-sized bars of titanium sit on a pallet awaiting shipment.

Dec. 27, 2019

Molesworth site recovers $60k in titanium

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A contractor’s raw element excess will be added to National Defense Stockpile.

Kelly Clabbers, a Fort Benning-based disposal service representative uses the Mobile Office equipment to print labels for the all-terrain vehicles she is receiving in place at the supported unit.

Nov. 14, 2019

New Mobile Office equipment aids processing

Battle Creek, Michigan — Defense Logistics Agency employees at sites across the country began testing a new way of doing business with the recent arrival of their Mobile Office equipment.

Nov. 13, 2019

DoE recognizes employees for energy efficiency

WASHINGTON — For the third year in a row, DLA Energy employees were awarded Federal Energy and Water Management Awards for their contributions in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation, and the use of advanced and renewable energy technologies at federal facilities.

Molly Capps, principal of McDeeds Creek Elementary School in Carthage, N.C., left, signs for the computers donated to her school by U.S. Army Forces Command from Eric Garris, Defense Logistics Agency, Oct. 15.

Oct. 22, 2019

Army computers serve on in local school district

Fort Bragg, North Carolina — Computers and accessories once used by soldiers at U.S. Army Forces Command continue to serve as they help North Carolina students learn

Schoolteachers pose during a recent training session with the Living History Education Foundation. Using U.S. Army Revolutionary-era uniforms and military items donated via DLA Disposition Services, the foundation helps history instructors plan immersive lessons and borrow equipment to help students better understand historic events like the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Sept. 18, 2019

Excess uniforms help history class come alive

HUDSON RIVER VALLEY, New York — Donated used items from the U.S. Army’s Old Guard help teachers and youngsters reenact Revolutionary-era America in the Northeast.

Horry County Police officers secure load the tents they obtained from DLA Disposition Services for hurricane preparations before heading back to South Carolina.

Sept. 12, 2019

Agency helps community prepare for the storm

Camp Lejeune, North Carolina — As Hurricane Dorian approached, police officers from South Carolina received excess military tents and other items to prepare for the worst with help from the Defense Logistics Agency.

Gunnery Sgt. Michael E. Longoria, 2ND Marine Force Storage Battalion, Marine Force Storage Command, conducts a joint inspection with Mr. James Ogden, disposal service representative, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) while at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia, August 2019. Marine Corps Logistics Command and DLA are working together to dispose of thousands of obsolete pieces of equipment in support of the Marine Corps’ Equipment Optimization Plan.

Sept. 4, 2019

Agency and Marine Corps partner to move an “iron mountain”

Albany, Georgia — Changing operational needs means keeping up with the latest equipment and getting rid of what’s obsolete and unserviceable, and Marines have been working hard with the Defense Logistics Agency to do so over the past 18 months.