DLA News Archive

Sept. 11, 2024

Future contracting officer leaders learn the ‘recipe for success’

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency Energy Acquisition Workforce Development Division closed out its fiscal year 2024 Contracting Officer Mentoring Program during a ceremony recognizing the accomplishments of 18 participants in the McNamara Headquarters Complex Auditorium.

Sept. 14, 2023

Troop Support school supply drive sets students up for success

PHILADELPHIA — To ensure Philadelphia-area students start the school year with new pencils, calculators, backpacks and other items, Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support hosted the second annual Fill-A-Backpack drive. School supply items donated by employees from DLA Troop Support, DLA Information Operations, and DLA Contracting Services Office donated the school supply items that were delivered to the local charity Cradles to Crayons for distribution to area schools.

Oct. 21, 2021

Walking in the DLA Energy Commander’s steps

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — For four days in early October, Procurement Analyst Darren Dunham shadowed an Air Force one-star general attending high level meetings and watching senior DLA leaders make influential decisions.

Dec. 21, 2020

DLA Distribution launches fiscal year 2021 Mentoring Program – seeks mentors and protégés

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — The Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Mentoring program is designed to develop a knowledgeable, accountable cadre of problem-solving supervisors to meet the evolving needs of DLA Distribution.

Dec. 5, 2019

Mentor program continues philanthropy, expands workforce impact

PHILADELPHIA — Employees from a Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support mentoring program assembled care packages and wrote cards for deployed warfighters to support morale and resiliency at an event Dec. 3 in Philadelphia. The program began in the Industrial Hardware supply chain, but has become a cross-organizational collaborative program with mentors and mentees from all of Troop support’s supply chains.

June 25, 2019

Mentees celebrate completion of yearlong program

Richmond, Va. — Twenty-five Defense Logistics Agency Aviation employees gathered in the Community Recreation Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, June 18 to celebrate their completion of a yearlong mentoring program that began last May.

Nov. 2, 2018

InSPIRE participants give back to local children’s hospitals

PHILADELPHIA — Participants in a DLA Troop Support mentoring program assembled 96 activity bags for patients of two local children’s hospitals after a mentoring session in Philadelphia Nov. 1.

Aug. 23, 2018

Mentoring Without End

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — DLA Distribution Commander holds mentoring session with Navy Supply Corps Officers

May 21, 2018

InSPIRE’d mentor program participants provide 'blessings' for homeless

PHILADELPHIA — Twenty participants in the InSPIRE mentoring program at DLA Troop Support assembled 150 lunch bags to be distributed to the homeless in southern New Jersey.

Dec. 7, 2017

New mentorship program aims to InSPIRE

PHILADELPHIA — A new road to professional and personal development will open for employees at the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support early next year. A supervisor in the Industrial Hardware supply chain is spearheading InSPIRE, a new mentorship program.