DLA News Archive

Feb. 1, 2026

Days to Minutes: AI application enables agency to make rapid decisions with data

DLA Disposition Services is embracing artificial intelligence to evaluate material handling equipment, and that is leading to potential broader adoption among the agency’s other major subordinate commands. A commercially available AI data analytics platform, initially used at agency property disposal sites since early 2024, is now being tested as a scalable tool to support more accurate and timely logistics decisions.

Feb. 1, 2026

A Conversation with the chief information officer

In this interview, the Defense Logistics Agency’s Chief Information Officer Adarryl Roberts discusses the agency’s digital transformations, with an emphasis on data acumen and artificial intelligence strategies.

Feb. 1, 2026

Bot Boost: Citizen developers drive automation gains at DLA

A team of citizen developers at DLA Weapons Support is using automated processes to save thousands of work hours on repetitive tasks. The Robotic Process Automation Bots Team identifies routine, time-consuming processes and constructs bots to handle them. These software-coded bots operate continuously, processing data and completing tasks, which frees up employees for higher-value activities.

Feb. 1, 2026

Agile adjustments: Tool aides joint petroleum enterprise planning, decisions

Keeping up with the pace of the joint petroleum enterprise is no easy feat, but the Defense Logistics Agency Energy team has a tool capable of delivering real-time situational awareness for energy solutions as global missions and threat dynamics evolve.

Feb. 1, 2026

Beyond Factory to Foxhole: DLA Transforms for a Contested Future

For decades, the U.S. military’s logistics system prioritized global efficiency, cost savings, and reliable throughput, fostering a culture of centralized stockpiling at large, fixed supply depots. As a result, this system is dangerously inadequate for confronting emerging global threats, particularly from the People Republic of China (PRC) in the Indo-Pacific theater. Today, logistics functions are no longer relegated to rear area support; logistics has become the "central front" in great power competition.

Feb. 1, 2026

Internet of Behavior and Digital Dust: Implications for Supply Chain Security and Mission Assurance

Moving can be a stressful event. Whether you have moved once or several times, it is an event that upends the lives of the entire family. SSG Alex Kallus, an Army logistics NCO, had just received orders to PCS (Permanent Change of Station) from Fort Novosel, AL, to his new joint assignment in DLA at Fort Belvoir, VA. His spouse, Kay, and their two kids were ready for the move and were busily making plans for the new location. As any military family knows, PCS moves meant chaos, checklists, and lots of internet searches.

Feb. 1, 2026

REFORPAC 2025 and the Friction of Distribution: Stress-Testing Agile Combat Employment Logistics

The United States’ strategic engagement in the Indo-Pacific was forged in the crucible of the World War II. In that campaign, General Douglas MacArthur operationalized “island hopping”—the sequential seizure and development of forward operating bases to project combat power across vast maritime distances.1 This approach proved decisive in the Pacific theater and established a foundational insight that endures today: in the Indo-Pacific, geography rewards dispersion, and logistics determines whether operational concepts succeed or fail. That logic underpins contemporary concepts such as Agile Combat Employment (ACE).

Feb. 1, 2026

Transforming Defense Logistics Planning: Leveraging Machine Learning for Enhanced Warfighter Readiness

The recent war in Ukraine has underscored the importance of logistical planning. In a 2023 study, RAND noted that “Russia’s failures in the war with Ukraine were due to poor planning”. Seeing these missteps and recognizing the critical importance of logistics, US Army Pacific named it as one of its four core “Interior Lines” that must be met to achieve its 2025 posture plan. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Department of Defense’s (DOD) combat support supply chain organization, will be a key piece in achieving these plans. Because of this importance, DLA’s way of material planning needs to evolve.

Feb. 1, 2026

I am DLA: Jamieson Duvall

A spotlight on Jamieson Duvall, the deputy director of Business Process Support at DLA Weapons Support (Columbus).

Feb. 1, 2026

Before Patton fought the Nazis, he flanked through Texas

Army Gen. George Patton, perhaps the most iconic American commander of the twentieth century, destroyed Nazi formations in North Africa, Sicily and the Ardennes Forest. We all know this story; but before the fury of “Old Blood and Guts” was felt on World War II battlefields, he bolted through East Texas alongside his newly formed 2nd Armored Division, symbolizing the U.S. Army’s modernizing force and Patton’s surging leadership.