DLA News Archive

Sept. 18, 2023

DLA employee in Guam shares family’s 12-hour typhoon experience

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A DLA physical security specialist describes how her family endured Typhoon Mawar and made it through 18 days without power or water.

Sept. 15, 2023

A case study: Lessons learned from Champlain Towers building collapse

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — DLA Installation Management Susquehanna Installation Emergency Operations Center team hosted a lessons learned case study featuring Marty Nevil of  Pennsylvania Task Force 1, who was on the incident command team during the event.

Sept. 14, 2023

DLA employee named Federal Property Manager of the Year

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Paul Ortiz, chief of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Property and Real Estate Division, was named the Federal Property Manager of the Year by the National Property Managers Association.

Sept. 13, 2023

Innovation will help shape future of military logistics

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Innovation in logistics is key to the nation’s ability to deter aggression as it meets new and growing threats, a DOD leader said at Industry Collider Day on the anniversary of 9/11.

Sept. 13, 2023

Partnerships, sustainment in Indo-Pacific theater focus of annual DLA/Air Force Day

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Two weeks shy of the Air Force’s 76th birthday, Defense Logistics Agency Director Vice Adm. Michelle Skubic welcomed senior logistics leaders from across the service and DLA to the annual Air Force/DLA Day.

Sept. 13, 2023

DLA Distribution Korea employee named DLA Employee of the Quarter

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Chong Pil Ho, with Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Korea, is one of three recipients of the DLA Employee of the quarter award, for the 3rd quarter of fiscal year 2023.

Sept. 13, 2023

Agency risk team aligns efforts at Michigan summit

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Risk experts from across DLA met in Battle Creek in August to strengthen the agency’s A-123/Enterprise Risk Management program.

Sept. 12, 2023

Industry Collider Day sparks collaboration on supply chain challenges

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Today’s global security environment highlights the need for logistics solutions that allow the world’s mightiest military to maintain its upper edge in lethality, DLA's director said Sept. 11 at the fourth annual Industry Collider Day.

Sept. 12, 2023

The life of a uniform: from contracting to customer

PHILADELPHIA — From coordinating with contractors to testing boots on an open flame, the Defense Logistics Agency ensures uniforms meet military customers’ needs and are durable.

Sept. 11, 2023

Remembering 9/11: DLA Distribution operations director recalls morning at Pentagon

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, was sunny and clear at the nation’s capital. Paul Abel, then an Army lieutenant colonel working in Army logistics at the Pentagon, put the top down on his convertible for the short commute to work. He even called his father, who worked in the same building in the 1960s, to brag that he would enjoy the late summer day through a window in his recently relocated office.