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Individual Rations Branch celebrate their Team of the Year award during DLA Troop Support awards on March 11. Team members are Deana Delaire, Gregory Lichtner, Maria Pappas, Ebony Pitts, Stephen Priore, Amanda Witte, Theresa Wright and Joseph Zanolle. (Photo taken by: Ed Maldonado)

March 12, 2025

Subsistence supply chain wins triple crown at awards ceremony

Philadelphia — Employees of the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence supply chain accomplished a clean sweep in the Team, Supervisor and Employee of the Year categories for the organization’s 2024 annual awards, on March 11.

An Award certificate mentioning Angela D. Jones as the Kellog Executive scholar and a glass trophy with a gift.

March 12, 2025

Meet DLA Energy’s first Kellogg Executive Scholar Angela Jones

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — To keep acquisition professionals current with the evolving business landscape, advanced learning opportunities are being offered through academia-industry partnerships with the Northwestern University.

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March 12, 2025

Ratings increase in all 4 categories of 2024 Supplier Survey

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Vendor satisfaction rose across all categories in DLA's 2024 Supplier Survey, which ran mid-October through mid-February.

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March 11, 2025

DLA receives clean audit opinion for National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA received an unmodified, “clean” audit opinion on the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund financial statements for the first time since assuming the mission in 1988.

Two men, one dressed in the uniform of an Army Col. and a woman stand together in deep conversation. They are standing in a warehouse.

March 11, 2025

Northeast team hosts leadership summit

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Northeast Region Director Beth Ford recently convened her directorate’s leadership team for a summit at Fort George G. Meade.

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March 10, 2025

Centenarian Receives Gold Star Recognition at Defense Supply Center Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. — In a moving ceremony held at Defense Supply Center Richmond, 101-year-old Alfred Hunter was recognized as a Gold Star family member by U.S. Rep. Robb Wittman (VA-01). The event honored the memory of Alfred’s brother, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert H. Hunter, who was killed in action during World War II.

A tan HMMWV parked on concrete with other military vehicles behind.

March 10, 2025

DLA’s ‘Mighty Land’ keeps Humvees on the battlefield

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Humvee has played a vital role in U.S. military success for decades. Having seen action in the first Gulf War, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan, it Humvee holds iconic status as a symbol of U.S. military might; and through various upgrades and additions, it continues to stand the test of time – with the help of Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime’s ‘Mighty Land’ team.

A man in a military uniform sits at the head of a table in a meeting with several others in military uniform.

March 7, 2025

DLA Chaplain promotes spiritual resiliency at DLA Land and Maritime

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime staff hosted DLA Chaplain Army Col. Thomas Brooks Feb. 25 at the Operations Center on Defense Supply Center Columbus for his second site visit since he assumed his role in the summer of 2022.   

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March 7, 2025

Top 50 optimizes excess property stocks

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — New turn in document markings will help DLA reverse logisticians shelve more high demand items for reutilization and donation.

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March 6, 2025

Protecting the mission: John O’Kleasky takes top prize

RICHMOND, Va., — John O'Kleasky, anti-terrorism officer within the Security Operations branch of the Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Richmond Security and Emergency Services Office, earned top honors when he was named DLA Senior Security Professional of the Year for 2024 during the agency’s annual awards ceremony held Jan. 23, at DLA headquarters on Fort Belvoir, Virginia.