DLA News Archive

Sept. 18, 2023

DLA’s Digital-Business Transformation: Revolutionizing processes for the future

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — DLA is introducing a 'digital core' of information technologies to fortify its operational capabilities. This digital core will increase scalability, heighten collaboration, enhance security, and automate manual processes. It includes a single sign-on portal, simplifying access for DLA employees, alongside external portals for customers and suppliers engaged with the agency providing real-time access to engineering data and lead times, streamline ordering platforms with end-to-end order tracking, and improve supplier interactions.

Sept. 18, 2023

DLA Energy helps Fort Carson soldiers save $260,000 in potential fuel losses

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA Energy quality assurance representatives worked alongside soldiers to recirculate over 60,000 gallons of off-specification fuel and save nearly $260,000 in potential fuel losses at two tactical vehicle refueling stations on Fort Carson, Colorado.

Sept. 18, 2023

Defense Supply Center Columbus prairie boosts biodiversity

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On any given day in the summer and early fall, hundreds of bees, butterflies, bumblebees, and other pollinators can be seen enjoying the three-acre prairie habitat on the north side of Defense Supply Center Columbus established by Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management – Columbus Environmental Division in 2017.

Sept. 18, 2023

Agency leaders address Culture and Climate Survey participation in new video

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The current Culture and Climate Survey marks a pivotal moment for the organization, DLA Vice Director Brad Bunn says in a new video encouraging employees to share their opinions on the workplace.

Sept. 18, 2023

DLA employee in Guam shares family’s 12-hour typhoon experience

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A DLA physical security specialist describes how her family endured Typhoon Mawar and made it through 18 days without power or water.

Sept. 15, 2023

A case study: Lessons learned from Champlain Towers building collapse

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — DLA Installation Management Susquehanna Installation Emergency Operations Center team hosted a lessons learned case study featuring Marty Nevil of  Pennsylvania Task Force 1, who was on the incident command team during the event.

Sept. 15, 2023

Two person DLA shop supports the President

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — In the heart of the Nation’s capital, tucked away in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services-Document Services Executive Print Shop, affectionately known as "DLA EPS," stands as a small yet vital cog in the machinery of the Executive Office of the President.

Sept. 14, 2023

Troop Support school supply drive sets students up for success

PHILADELPHIA — To ensure Philadelphia-area students start the school year with new pencils, calculators, backpacks and other items, Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support hosted the second annual Fill-A-Backpack drive. School supply items donated by employees from DLA Troop Support, DLA Information Operations, and DLA Contracting Services Office donated the school supply items that were delivered to the local charity Cradles to Crayons for distribution to area schools.

Sept. 14, 2023

DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation discuss shared strategies at visit

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime senior leaders welcomed their DLA Aviation counterparts to Defense Supply Center Columbus Aug. 29 for continued collaboration between the sister organizations.

Sept. 14, 2023

DLA employee named Federal Property Manager of the Year

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Paul Ortiz, chief of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Property and Real Estate Division, was named the Federal Property Manager of the Year by the National Property Managers Association.