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Five students from the University of Virginia’s Hacking for Defense course presented their recommendations from their final research project to Pentagon staff at the end of last year. The Hacking for Defense course provides university students an opportunity to work with DOD and the intelligence community to address the nation’s cybersecurity threats and security challenges.

Feb. 1, 2019

Subsistence enlists the help of UVA students to provide feedback to improve information security operations for DOD food industry partners

PHILADELPHIA — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence supply chain enlisted the help of five students from the University of Virginia’s Hacking for Defense course to communicate new Department of Defense information security requirements and resources to food industry partners.

Starr Seip, a nutritionist with DLA Troop Support’s Subsistence supply chain, teaches employee’s about carbohydrates during a diabetes education training, Jan. 15, 2018 in Philadelphia. Seip completed her doctoral dissertation on diabetes last December and a portion of it was published in the December 2018 Issue of the Journal of Food Science and Nutrition.

Jan. 24, 2019

Subsistence dietician gets first scholarly journal article published

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania National Guard soldier and current registered dietician in the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence supply chain recently become a published author.

Jim Lucas recites the “I Have A Dream” speech during the DLA Troop Support and the NAVSUP Weapons Systems Support’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday observance program Jan. 23 in Philadelphia. Lucas has received acclaim across the nation for his dramatizations depicting the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jan. 23, 2019

A dramatization of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. highlights NSA-Philadelphia annual birthday observance

PHILADELPHIA — Employees from across Naval Support Activity Philadelphia filed into the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support auditorium to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the annual birthday observance program held Jan. 23 in Philadelphia.

DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Darrell Williams, left, DLA Troop Support Commander Army Brig. Gen. Mark Simerly, center, and Navy Command Master Chief Shaun Brahmsteadt (far right) present Roberto Santana Irizarry, second left, contracting officer representative, DLA Troop Support Subsistence supply chain, with the DLA Leader of the Year award during the 51st Annual Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony, Dec. 13, 2018 at the McNamara Headquarters Complex Auditorium, Ft. Belvoir, Va. Santana Irizarry received the award for his significant achievements in providing logistical support to the Warfighter throughout Afghanistan.

Jan. 10, 2019

Subsistence employee’s hard decision ultimately earns him 2018 Employee Leader of the Year recognition

PHILADELPHIA — Having to convince your wife and five kids to leave a familiar place to go to an unfamiliar place may seem like a daunting task. For one Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support employee this one decision led to one of his most gratifying experiences being selected as the 2018 Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Leader of the Year.

Craig Fischer (left), program manager with the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Innovation and Transformation Office, shares lessons learned from a blockchain pilot with DLA Troop Support leaders including Product Test Center-Analytical supervisor Jamie Hieber (right) at a meeting Dec. 3 in Philadelphia.

Dec. 21, 2018

Troop Support event poses question: How and where can blockchain help?

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support provided approximately 41,000 power poles, 88.1 million meals and 1,264 generators in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the 2017 hurricane season. Responding to three major hurricanes was a record undertaking for DLA, and the mission was a success. But could the use of blockchain technology improve DLA’s support even more?

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Industrial Hardware Director Air Force Col. Adrian Crowley is addressed by Santa, played by contract specialist Craig Singleton, in a presentation from IH as part of their entry in the 2018 holiday decorating contest in Philadelphia Dec. 20, 2018.

Dec. 21, 2018

Troop Support brings cheer to workforce with 2018 holiday decorating contest

PHILADELPHIA — Employees of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support supply chain and staff offices participated in a holiday decorating contest in Philadelphia Dec. 20. Employees created holiday “postage stamp” themed scenes depicting their piece of the agency’s Warfighter support mission, and entries were judged by Troop Support’s senior leadership team. Congratulations to 2018’s winners: 1st Place – Industrial Hardware; 2nd Place – Clothing and Textiles; 3rd Place – Command Support.

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support commander Army Brig. Gen. Mark Simerly presents the DLA Troop Support Declaration of Innovation to Rob Fagan during a Town Hall in Philadelphia, Nov.11, 2018. Fagan, a junior contract specialist on the heraldic team in DLA Troop Support’s Clothing and Textile supply chain, was instrumental in standardizing and developing a new material to be used in flags for the military. (Photo by Alexandria Brimage-Gray/DLA Troop Support)

Dec. 18, 2018

Commander launches innovation award ‘to meet dynamic, emerging warfighter requirements of the future’

PHILADELPHIA — On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence. On Dec. 11, the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support commander and supply chain directors also gathered in Philadelphia to sign the inaugural Declaration of Innovation.

Dec. 13, 2018

DLA Troop Support commander holds year-end town hall

PHILADELPHIA — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Commander Army Brig. Gen. Mark Simerly held his final town hall of the year, Dec. 11, 2018 in Philadelphia.

Navy Cmdr. Shani LeBlanc, DLA Troop Support Pacific commander, pose with Soldiers from the Public Health Activity Hawaii, Schofield Barracks after presenting them awards for their contributions to RIMPACT 2018, Nov. 21, 2018 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickman, Hawaii. RIMPACT is the world's largest international maritime exercise that takes place in the Hawaiian Islands every two years.

Dec. 4, 2018

Troop Support Pacific commander awards soldiers for maritime exercise contributions

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Pacific commander awarded nine soldiers from the Public Health Activity Hawaii, Schofield Barracks, the Joint Service Achievement Medal and five soldiers’ certificates of achievement for their contributions to the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise, Nov. 21, 2018 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickman, Hawaii.

Men from the DLA Troop Support Subsistence supply chain pose for a photo to commemorate the final days of No Shave November, Nov. 28, 2018 in Philadelphia. No Shave November is an annual campaign to bring awareness to cancer and encourage participants to donate the money typically used for shaving supplies to a local charity.

Dec. 4, 2018

Subsistence supply chain employees grow beards to raise cancer awareness

PHILADELPHIA — As the leaves changed colors on nature’s trees, beards with shades of red, brown, white, gray, black and even a few multi-colored, appeared on the faces of nearly 20 men from the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence supply chain during “No Shave November.”

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