DLA News Archive

Tag: Defense Contract Management Agency

Picture of woman against 60th anniversary background.

Sept. 21, 2021

Family shapes financial analyst’s DLA experience

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Financial Analyst Kathleen Stephens keeps working for DLA all in the family. Stephens recalls memories from when her mother and two sisters worked for the agency.

May 20, 2020

Multi-party communication resolves delay in contracts

RICHMOND, Va. — Warfighter success depends on efficient teams and when one Defense Logistics Agency Aviation team experienced process delays, they set out to correct the issue in January and get things moving again.

April 2, 2018

TRANSCOM/DLA partnership results in transportation contract improvements

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — On February 12, DLA Distribution began utilizing one of the largest logistics contracts ever awarded by the U.S. government. The Defense Freight Transportation Services (DFTS) contract, a long-awaited collaboration between the United States Transportation Command and DLA Distribution, launched as an upgrade to the Defense Transportation Coordination Initiative (DTCI), which aimed to provide a single touch point for DoD shipments by allowing a commercial third party firm to manage and coordinate transportation.

Face-to-face meetings increase collaboration

Oct. 24, 2017

Face-to-face interactions, encourage relationship building, improve warfighter support

Richmond, Va. — In these days of electronic communications, do you ever wonder if talking face-to-face would produce better results? Two years ago when the Defense Contract Management Agency’s Dallas, Texas, office was struggling to meet its on-time-delivery goal, the then Dallas commander, Army Col. Anthony Wizner, had just that thought and reached out to Defense Logistics Agency Aviation

A group of DLA Land and Maritime associates listen to David Hobbs (right), a quality assurance specialist at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio as he explains the production process of an Abrams Main Battle Tank. The group toured the facility May 16-17 to learn about the production of combat vehicles.

May 30, 2017

Factory tour shows how an Abrams comes to life

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A lot has changed at the Lima Army Tank Plant since the first combat vehicles rolled off its assembly line nearly 75 years ago. During World War II, the Ohio installation had more than 5,000 employees and processed tens of thousands of vehicles for overseas shipment.