DLA News Archive

May 1, 2025

Utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Illuminate Supply Chain Risk

DLA White Paper 25-3, March 2025: DLA is strategically adopting artificial intelligence to revolutionize supply chain risk management, enhance operational resilience, address vulnerabilities, and ultimately ensure mission readiness by leveraging AI-driven tools for predictive analytics, resource optimization, scenario planning and automated oversight.

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 21, 2025

White paper: War reserves should include tactical energy storage, batteries

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Batteries and tactical energy storage should be included in pre-positioned war reserve materiel to ensure today’s modernized joint force is electronically equipped for success, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime officials say in a white paper published last month.

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."

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.