DLA News Archive

Category: Financial Stewardship

Members of the U.S. Army Band Woodwind Quintet, one of the Army’s premiere chamber ensembles.

May 23, 2019

Sun Tzu, woodwind quintets and a Texas high school band

Alvarado, Texas — The Texas State Agency for Surplus Property reached a big milestone recently thanks to excess items acquired through the Defense Logistics Agency.

A variety of chairs await transport from the DLA Disposition Services site in Bahrain to the local Red Crescent Society where they will help those in need.

May 6, 2019

Excess items avoid landfill to help people in need

Naval Support Activity Bahrain — It took more than luck to complete a long and challenging donation process to provide excess items to Bahrain’s Red Crescent Society, but the charity’s local leaders recently wished good fortune on Defense Logistics Agency employees there for extra efforts from agency employees to provide support.

April 30, 2019

Hill AFB Energy Conservation

Budgeting energy-efficient upgrades to save millions of dollars can require innovative thinking. In 2018, Defense Logistics Agency Energy helped Hill Air Force Base, Utah, utilize over $4 million through energy incentives and bill credits for a $91.1 million Energy Savings Performance Contract.

Contractors prepare to transport more than 14,000 pounds of lead acid batteries from Thumrait Air Base to a recycling facility in Oman.

April 17, 2019

Teamwork recharges disposal process

Thumrait Air Base, Oman — After more than a year, lead acid batteries used to support U.S. operations in Oman are being disposed of again thanks to new capabilities there and teamwork between two of the Defense Logistics Agency’s major subordinate commands.

Lewis Sieber, fire equipment manager of the Nebraska Forest Service navigates through flood water searching for stranded people in a six-wheeled drive cargo truck issued through the DoD Firefighter Program. Photo provided by the Nebraska Forest Service

April 12, 2019

Excess to the rescue

Battle Creek, Michigan — Equipment from DLA Disposition Services helped save lives as Nebraska recently faced its worst flooding of the past 50 years.

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

Leaders share benefits of divestiture

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.

Generators arriving at the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office await use at a new training facility or whenever they might be needed for disaster response and rural investigations.

April 4, 2019

Small sites provide big support shipping excess property to new users

Blue Grass Amy Depot, Kentucky — Like the popular 2001 Army recruiting slogan, Disposal Support Representative William Thompson must see himself as “an army of one” as he serves multiple locations from his one-person DLA Disposition Services site at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.

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

Students using the Science Lab use the computers for their in research projects.

March 14, 2019

Former Air Force computers serve Alabama students

Prattville, Alabama — Computers that once supported airmen at Maxwell Air Force Base continue to help users soar as they help educate students in Prattville, Alabama.

Kevin Lambert, a teacher at Layton Christian Academy in Utah, oversees his students as they work on computers donated to the school through the DoD Computers for Learning Program and DLA Disposition Services.

Feb. 13, 2019

Utah students benefit from Computers for Learning

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — A small K-12 academy recently updated one of its computer labs with 60 used military laptops for only $2,500