DLA News Archive

May 24, 2022

EEO managers discuss leadership strategies during virtual summit

Fort Belvoir, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office held its virtual leadership summit May 17-19 with the theme “Next Level Leadership/Strategies for Success.”

May 24, 2022

DLA Installation Management Richmond site director visits Pennsylvania, reviewing inventory and future requirements

Richmond, Va. — David Gibson, site director for Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Richmond, Virginia, traveled to DLA Aviation’s Industrial Plant Equipment Services Division in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, May 9 – 12 to conduct a review of inventory and requirements for an upcoming general equipment compliance visit from DLA Headquarters later this fiscal year.

May 23, 2022

Leadership Reflection: Hilario "Ben" Benavides, Jr.

Get to know Hilario "Ben" Benavides, Jr., the area manager at Eglin, Florida.

May 23, 2022

J6 Employee Spotlight - Darren Crowden

Darren Crowden, DLA Document Services' customer manager for the Army, is this month's J6 Employee spotlight.

May 23, 2022

Family members of early DSCR landowner pay respects to their ancestors

RICHMOND, Va. — In 1797, Richard Gregory, one of the wealthiest landowners in Chesterfield County, Virginia, purchased 1,000 acres of land Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, sits on today. On this land he built Manor House, now known as the Bellwood House. It’s one of the oldest houses in Chesterfield County and is listed as a national historic landmark.

May 23, 2022

Recognition, reentry, employee accomplishments highlighted at DLA Troop Support town hall

PHILADELPHIA — Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Commander Army Brig. Gen. Eric Shirley held a town hall meeting May 10, where he presented individual and team awards, recognized recent organizational accomplishments, and discussed employees’ reentry to the workplace after two years of mass telework.

May 23, 2022

Agency’s fiscal 2021 history, McNamara memoir now available 

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — New resources chronicling the Defense Logistics Agency’s recent efforts and the life of its first director are available on the growing history page at DLA’s website. 

May 20, 2022

PA Military Community Enhancement Commission, DCED see DLA modernization

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution is modernizing the way they do business, the leadership team told representatives from the Pennsylvania Military Community Enhancement Commission and Department of Community and Economic Development April 28, at its headquarters in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

May 20, 2022

Supply technician shares a personal connection to DSCR aircraft

RICHMOND, Va. — When David Buonconsiglio began his job as a supply technician for Defense Logistics Agency Distribution at Richmond, Virginia, on Defense Supply Center Richmond two months ago, it didn’t take him long to get reacquainted with a memory from his past.

May 19, 2022

Leadership Reflection: Becky Watson

Get to know Becky Watson, the Disposition Services Director for South East Region.