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Dec. 20, 2024
A short history of business systems modernization, Part 3
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — After years losing ground to commercial offerings, DLA finally began implementing Business Systems Modernization in November 2001. It also instituted fundamental change that included office reconfigurations and new job descriptions.
Dec. 19, 2024
A short history of business systems modernization, Part 2
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In this historical commentary, learn how DLA leaders expanded the agency's technology reform after realizing that merely replacing signature technology wouldn’t solve the myriad problems plaguing it.
Dec. 18, 2024
A short history of business systems modernization, Part 1
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — This article is the first of three chronicling Business Systems Modernization, the journey DLA took to replace its signature management technology.
June 21, 2024
Consumable item growth at DLA: From 67% to ‘Almost All’
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA's management of consumable items rose from 39% of the military’s expendable inventory in 1962 to 67% three decades later due to steady accretion and one massive transfer. The same pattern occurred on an accelerated timeline over the next decade and a half.
June 20, 2024
Consumable item growth at DLA: From 39% to 67%
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA has managed consumables such as blankets, fuel and photographic film since receiving seven commodity supply centers in 1962. This two-part series details the agency's growing responsibility for consumable items through history.
Feb. 26, 2024
Commentary: DLA’s historic, current support covers 14 of 15 executive departments
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA has long been a whole-of-government provider and has supplied all but one of the nation’s 15 executive departments.
Feb. 20, 2024
Commentary: Foreign military sales reflect national policy, expand customer base
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA has long provided goods and services to allied nations. From NATO cataloging in the 1960s to today’s worldwide crises, the agency has used the Foreign Military Sales program to advance national policy and realize economies of scale.
Dec. 26, 2023
Commentary: DLA provides global support in 2023
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In most years, events force DLA to focus on one region. Not so in 2023, when actual and potential conflict involved it in six of seven geographic commands.
Oct. 23, 2023
Commentary: World War II developmental, formative for first 5 DLA directors
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — When the Defense Supply Agency became the Defense Logistics Agency in 1977, it marked the end of an era. For a decade and a half, agency directors had based organizational and operational decisions on their World War II experiences.
Aug. 28, 2023
Commentary: DLA’s support for the Abrams as involved, critical as ever
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA Historian Colin Williams chronicles the agency's long and storied relationship with the Abrams tank, which it helped develop in the 1970s.