DLA News Archive

Tag: history

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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.

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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.

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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.

Dec. 7, 2023

DLA Hall of Fame nominations due Jan. 16

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Current and former DLA employees have until Jan. 16 to nominate former employees for the 2024 DLA Hall of Fame.

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Dec. 6, 2023

Former DLA Troop Support commander named new DLA director

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The U.S. Senate confirmed Army Maj. Gen. Mark Simerly for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and director of DLA Dec. 5 after a 10-month impasse of DOD nominations.

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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.

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June 21, 2023

Commentary: First agency director sketches, foretells growth in commodity management

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Before his tour as first director of the Defense Supply Agency ended, Army Lt. Gen. Andrew T. McNamara shared his ideas for improving military logistics with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara.

April 11, 2023

Fiscal 2022 history report details agency’s latest efforts

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Rapid response and technology transformation are among themes of DLA's fiscal 2022 historical report published early this month.