DLA News Archive

Tag: industry

DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles employees learn how Switlik Inc. makes life-saving equipment that DLA procures for its military customers during a visit to the manufacturer in Trenton, New Jersey June 29. The visit to Switlik was an opportunity for employees to gain first-hand exposure to the industrial base.

July 14, 2016

Interns among C&T employees to visit life-saving equipment manufacturer

TRENTON — A group of C&T employees gained some industry perspective during a visit an anti-gravity suit manufacturer in New Jersey.

Alessandro Marcozzi, a manager at DeRossi & Son in Vineland, New Jersey, explains the clothing manufacturing process to Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support employees Robin-Kirkland Gonzalez, customer account specialist, Ken Drexinger, demand planner, and Jessica De La Hoz, contracting officer, all with the Clothing and Textiles supply chain during a visit to plant March 2.

March 23, 2016

C&T employees visit supplier, improve understanding of industry

March 23, 2016 — Twelve Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support employees from the Clothing and Textiles supply chain toured a manufacturing plant that has been making uniforms for the U.S. military since World War II.

John Danko, owner of Danko Arlington Foundry, displays a casting pattern developed with additive manufacturing processes to Defense Logistics Agency Aviation employees visiting his family’s foundry during DLA Aviation’s Forging and Casting Assistance Team’s September 2015 “Introduction to Metal Casting and Forging” Technology Transfer Seminar. (DLA Aviation Courtesy Photo)

Jan. 19, 2016

DLA forging and casting investment continues to provide returns 25 years later

In the early 1990s, Defense Logistics Agency recognized the need to invest in future technology; the agency saw that some once-robust domestic supply chains were disappearing, fragmenting or going overseas. Now, 25-plus years later, the agency’s forging and casting initiative is yielding benefits from knowledge shared by industry, the military services and DLA Aviation.

Vendors and supply chain reps from Clothing and Textiles discuss the Army's new Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform during the Joint Advanced Planning Brief for Industry June 16 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The two-day event included more than 260 vendors, 40 customers and a Captains of Industry meeting with DLA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Andy Bush.

June 30, 2015

Troop Support hosts ‘intersection’ of clothing and textiles industry, customers

Cherry Hill, New Jersey — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles hosted more than 260 vendors and 40 customers for the Joint Advanced Planning Brief for Industry in Cherry Hill, New Jersey June 16.