DLA News Archive

March 4, 2020

Spring forward with DST, working smoke alarms

Richmond, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Richmond’s Fire Prevention Office would like to remind everyone of the importance of changing your smoke detector batteries when you move your clock forward March 8, in conjunction with Daylight Saving Time. The smoke detectors could be the most important safety equipment in your home, but in many cases, they are the least maintained.

March 2, 2020

Employee Spotlight: Christopher King

Richmond, Va. — Customer Support Specialist Lead Christopher King serves as the primary DLA Aviation face to the engines' industrial customer at Fleet Readiness Center East, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Feb. 27, 2020

Aviation AMCOM 101 focuses on warfighter support efforts

Richmond, Va. — Redstone Arsenal’s Sparkman Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was the site of this year’s semi-annual U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command’s 101 conference, an event illustrating how AMCOM supports Army leadership spanning the aviation enterprise from around the globe.

Feb. 19, 2020

The year of accountability

RICHMOND, VA — The Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Plan 2018-2026 provides the roadmap for the agency to achieve accountability to the nation’s warfighter using five lines of effort representing the foundation DLA uses to provide global, end-to-end supply chain solutions.

Feb. 18, 2020

Eisenhower School students visit DLA Aviation, learn how agency supports depot material availability

Richmond, Va. — Students from the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy visited Defense Logistics Agency Aviation on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia Feb. 13 to interact with senior leaders and learn how DLA supports material availability at the military service depots.

Feb. 12, 2020

Inside the nerve center of DLA Headquarters

Richmond, Va. — Professional development opportunities come in many forms, shapes and programs. Last summer I was afforded a volunteer opportunity to be included in a groundbreaking program, representing Defense Logistics Agency Aviation as a liaison officer to the DLA Headquarters Agency Synchronization Operations Center also known as ASOC.

Feb. 10, 2020

Storm drain improvements good for installation, environment

Richmond, Va. — Views of white steam erupting from manhole covers around the installation might remind one of majestic geysers or whales expelling air at the ocean surface; but this warm cloud of condensation serves its own purpose for the infrastructure of Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Feb. 6, 2020

DLA Aviation hosts Army educators, improves schoolhouse collaboration

Richmond, Va. — Warrant Officers from the 128th Aviation Brigade out of Fort Eustis, Virginia, traveled to Defense Logistics Agency Aviation on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, Jan. 31 to collaborate with DLA Aviation’s Army Customer Facing Division support personnel.

Jan. 27, 2020

DLA Aviation builds strong partnerships through customer engagement

Richmond, VA. — Customer Relationship Management Cell team members traveled North Jan. 14 in support of the soldiers assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion “Wings of Freedom” at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Customer engagement visits, part of ongoing interactions between DLA and its customers, ensure close collaboration between the DLA Aviation workforce and its customers in an attempt to synchronize unit readiness and lethality.

Jan. 24, 2020

Networking at the speed of ‘just right’

Richmond, Va. — How quickly can you get to know your co-workers? The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation’s Strategic Acquisition Programs Directorate clocked it at around three minutes during its speed networking event Jan. 15 in the Frank B. Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.