DLA News Archive

April 5, 2019

DLA Troop Support’s PTC Analytical hosts tours, promotes knowledge

PHILADELPHIA — The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Product Test Center Analytical hosted tours for DLA Headquarters counsel and junior Navy sailors April 3 in Philadelphia. The event helped educate partners and customers on the scientific testing employees do in support of the warfighter.

April 5, 2019

DLA Indo-Pacific raises over $18,000 in 2018 CFC

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii — In a March 27 award ceremony, 94,000 civilians and military members were honored for raising more than $1.8 million in pledges during the 2018 Combined Federal Campaign.

April 5, 2019

Annual Inventory Program, refined focus on metrics to improve DLA Distribution auditability

Defense Logistics Agency Distribution is implementing new processes to improve overall financial reporting and customer support.

April 5, 2019

DLA Distribution’s Shird presented commander’s coin

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Equal Employment Specialist Tommy Shird received a commander’s coin during DLA Distribution Commanding Officer Navy Rear Adm. Kevin M. Jones’ employee recognition event Feb. 26.

April 5, 2019

Emergency response terms explained

Richmond, Va — Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, conducted a tornado response exercise March 19. During the exercise, the installation’s mass notification system disseminated the message that included the words “seek shelter.” Participants’ post-exercise comments indicated confusion with respect to the meaning of “seek shelter,” which is different from “shelter-in-place” or “lockdown.”

April 4, 2019

Small sites provide big support shipping excess property to new users

Blue Grass Amy Depot, Kentucky — Like the popular 2001 Army recruiting slogan, Disposal Support Representative William Thompson must see himself as “an army of one” as he serves multiple locations from his one-person DLA Disposition Services site at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.

April 4, 2019

Memories of dirty boots, cold showers shared during Vietnam War Commemoration Day event

PHILADELPHIA — Approximately 70 local Vietnam War veterans were honored during a commemoration event March 29 at KleinLife in Northeast Philadelphia.

April 4, 2019

Specialized training program helps new employees thrive in the Subsistence supply chain

PHILADELPHIA — As a former intern in the now, Defense Logistics Agency Pathways to Career Excellence program, these are feelings that Bill Blake knows very well. So he decided that he would do something to help ease the transition for those participants who came after him.

April 4, 2019

3D-printed impeller enhances readiness of Corps’ main battle tank

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Marine Corps Systems Command website — Marine Corps Systems Command recently collaborated with fleet Marines and other organizations to review the successful performance of several 3D-printed impellers used on M1A1 Abrams tanks at Twentynine Palms, California. The Corps plans to use 3D-printed impellers when the original part wears or becomes inoperable and a new part cannot be received in a timely fashion.

April 4, 2019

Old-school whiteboards: a key tool in warfighter readiness

RICHMOND, VA — Advancements in technology are critical to the ongoing success of military operations here and overseas, and this need is evident to the thousands of men and women in service who rely on technology to help them accomplish their missions. But one analog staple survives — and even thrives — alongside the high-tech gadgets in service today: the humble whiteboard.