DLA News Archive

July 11, 2022

PaCE Spotlight: Mahlon May

Battle Creek, Mich — Meet Mahlon May, one of DLA Disposition Services newest PaCERs.

June 19, 2022

PaCE Spotlight: Sabrina Young

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Pathways to Career Excellence Program for DLA Disposition Services is a two-year program that takes PaCERs through all of Disposition Services and its processes to learn as much as possible about the directorate. The first year takes place at DLA Disposition Services Headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, and the second year either takes place in Battle Creek for Contracting PaCERs or at an assigned field site for Property Disposal PaCERs. PaCERs begin as general schedule 7s, move to GS-9s at the end of their first year, and graduate the program as GS-11s. There are multiple pathways to becoming a PaCER, including being hired internally, as a recent graduate, or from military service.

June 5, 2022

PaCE Spotlight: Nathan Gambrel

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Meet Nathan Gambrel, a DLA Disposition Services PaCER. He began the program in 2021 in Group 42, the most recent group, and is currently at DLA Disposition Services headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan.

May 15, 2022

PaCE Spotlight: Tim Dauten

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Tim Dauten is the Operations Receipt and Network Division chief working at DLA Disposition Services Headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan. Dauten was a member of the PaCE Program when it was still known as the Intern Program, participating in Class 2A in 2011.

May 1, 2022

PaCE Spotlight: Jeremiah Burns

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — Jeremiah Burns is a current member of PaCE Group 40 beginning in 2020. For his second year, he is at the DLA Disposition Services site in Richmond, Virginia. He is set to complete the program as a Property Disposal Specialist, and is on target to become an Environmental COR after graduation.

March 16, 2022

PaCERs receive training at Tucson Site

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Pathways to Career Excellence Group 42 along with one member of Group 40 were welcomed to Tucson, Arizona, in the first week of March during a visit to the DLA Centralized Demilitarization Division site.

March 12, 2022

National Reading Month: Rebel Leader

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — March is National Reading Month. Everyday reading increases knowledge and develops personal and professional skills. Throughout the month, the DLA Disposition Services Pathways to Career Excellence program participants are sharing insights from books* they recently finished. *No official Department of Defense endorsement implied

March 9, 2022

National Reading Month: Warehouse Management

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — March is National Reading Month. Everyday reading increases knowledge and develops personal and professional skills. Throughout the month, the DLA Disposition Services Pathways to Career Excellence program participants are sharing insights from books* they recently finished. *No official Department of Defense endorsement implied

March 5, 2022

National Reading Month: The Power of Emotions at Work reviewed

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — March is National Reading Month. Everyday reading increases knowledge and develops personal and professional skills. Throughout the month, the DLA Disposition Services Pathways to Career Excellence program participants are sharing insights from books* they recently finished. *No official Department of Defense endorsement implied

Jan. 24, 2021

Former military officer now molds future civilian leaders

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Among the challenges of the pandemic is offering personnel development program for new trainees that goes beyond classrooms for on-the-job assignments, cross-training and rotational opportunities, but such is the job of the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ new Pathways to Career Excellence Program Manager Steve Wilson.