DLA News Archive

April 18, 2025

Warstopper program changes could improve surge capabilities for critical supplies

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Expanding DLA's Warstopper Program to address critical material needs of the entire Defense Department would help boost industry’s ability to surge to meet unexpected demands and potentially save money, according to a new white paper.

April 1, 2025

Modernizing Defense Logistics: Converging Kill Chains and Supply Chains

To maintain readiness and lethality in a rapidly evolving global environment, the DLA must leverage new technologies like AI and machine learning to create digitally interoperable supply chains that are as agile and responsive as kill chains, ensuring warfighters receive uninterrupted support in contested environments.

April 1, 2025

Support at the Forward Edge of the Battlefield: Lessons Learned

DLA White Paper 25-2, February 2025: Achieving resilient logistics in large-scale combat operations requires regionalized sustainment, integration of allied and partner capabilities through collective logistics, as well as enhanced command, control and coordination systems to offset contested logistics and ensure operational agility.

April 1, 2025

Contested logistics white paper: US military logistics no longer uncontested in Europe

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has forced the U.S. and NATO allies to confront the hard truth that the European continent is no longer a secure, uncontested environment for military logistics, according to a new white paper.

March 13, 2025

DLA applying AI to supply chain risk management, warfighter readiness

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Approaching supply chain risk management with a proactive, data-centric mindset and artificial intelligence will ensure DLA provides stable warfighter support and reduces the impacts of supply chain disruptions.

March 6, 2025

Battlefield logistics: Collective capabilities key to allied success

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Resilient logistics capabilities will be vital to operational success in future large-scale combat operations, according to a new eight-page white paper titled "Support at the Forward Edge of the Battlefield: Lessons Learned."

Jan. 30, 2025

Retired general to logisticians: The next war requires a new strategy

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — War strategies and groundwork of United States adversaries in the Pacific have set conditions for a battle unlike any in the past, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Defense Logistics Agency employees Jan. 23.

Jan. 28, 2025

Data acumen training signals DLA's commitment to data-driven results, culture

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Logistics data is so powerful it's expected to shape everything from how employees manage DOD's supply chains to how it partners with industry and even improves workforce safety trends. Data acumen training is available to all employees in LMS.

Nov. 21, 2024

Contested logistics white paper: DLA must adapt sustainment methods now

The concepts and capabilities that have enabled the Defense Logistics Agency to sustain the nation’s warfighters must be adapted to ensure continued success, agency leaders say in a new white paper.

June 24, 2019

Campaign of Learning event provides insight to industry future capabilities

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Campaign of Learning program held an event for employees to learn how industry partners' future operations and challenges they are facing affect supply chain current and future operations during an event June 17 in Philadelphia. “This event provided an open dialogue between several industry partners and senior leaders from each Troop Support supply chain,” Lauren Colabelli, DLA Troop Support J3/5 Marketing Analyst chief and event organizer, said. “Addressing challenges and discovering industry innovations as they apply to current and future battlefields was the main focus of this event.”