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April 28, 2025
Disposition Services HQ welcomes DLA senior leaders
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency personnel at Michigan’s Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center hosted members of the agency's senior leadership team April 22 for briefings and a mid-year review of the 2025 DLA Disposition Services Annual Operating Plan.
April 25, 2025
DLA trains civilians to demilitarize military equipment
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — When most people picture military might, they think of tanks, helicopters and heavy weaponry in action. What they don’t often consider is what happens to that gear when it’s no longer needed.
April 22, 2025
How can my organization get surplus military equipment to display?
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services represents just one of several ways museums and interested organizations can pursue obsolete or surplus military vehicles and equipment for static display.
April 18, 2025
HDIFC receives an education on a serious yet important topic
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and members of the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center hosted special guests from local law enforcement to discuss the serious issue of sexual assault, particularly in connection with child abuse.
April 15, 2025
PACE Spotlight: Casch Kunkel
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Casch Kunkel is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Group 48, which began in 2024. For his second year in PACE, he will be placed at the DLA Disposition Services site at Letterkenny Army Depot in Pennsylvania.
April 10, 2025
“Lightning Purge” of obsolete Army equipment in Hawaii
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services recently supported a successful Army 25th Infantry Division two-month property divestiture that allows Indo-Pacific-focused logisticians to prioritize warfighting and readiness in the region.
April 8, 2025
RA summit brings together two DSDs for training
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services resource analysts from the Southeast and Mid-America regions recently gathered for a unique and informative summit in Jacksonville, Florida.
April 4, 2025
Ramstein taps DLA property reuse stream for WMD threat response system
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The inactivation of a Germany-based Army Reserve Weapons of Mass Destruction response team recently freed up a $1 million collection of chemical sensors, detectors, and protective personal gear quickly scooped up by the Air Force’s 435th Air Ground Operations Wing.
March 31, 2025
Kuwait provides experience of a lifetime for Disposition Service member
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Olivia Beavers, a Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services environmental protection specialist, discusses her PCS to the Kuwait field site.
March 28, 2025
Hardwood air-to-ground weapons range refreshes targets with DLA assistance
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Hardwood Air-to-Ground Weapons Range recently refreshed several targets using excess property from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services that had been deemed scrap.
March 25, 2025
PACE Spotlight: Paul Turner
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Pathways to Career Excellence Program for DLA Disposition Services is a two-year program that takes PACER’s through all of Disposition Services and its processes to learn as much as possible about the directorate. The first year takes place at DLA Disposition Services Headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, and the second year either takes place in Battle Creek for Contracting PACER’s or at an assigned field site for Property Disposal PACER’s.
March 21, 2025
Battle Creek updates vice director on AOP
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services team members in Battle Creek, Michigan participate in a virtual brief with Brad Bunn, the vice director of DLA.
March 18, 2025
Metals recapture lowers agency supply chain costs
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA’s Precious Metals Recovery Program extracts elements like gold, silver, and platinum from scrap to decrease defense production expenses.
March 14, 2025
DLA Helps Military Band Instruments Find New Gig in DoDEA Schools
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — When people think of career fields the U.S. military trains for, they often think of medicine, aircraft maintenance or even underwater welding. Whatever they imagine, musicians aren’t usually at the top of the list.
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.
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.
March 4, 2025
Anniston thrives amidst challenges
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A look at how Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services site in Anniston, Alabama is thriving despite operational and personnel challenges.
Feb. 28, 2025
Space Force reutilizes surplus lifts through DLA
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Range personnel supporting the Eastern Range recently pulled lifts from the agency’s used property stores to maintain hard-to-reach mobile platform equipment.
Feb. 25, 2025
Disposition Services Kuwait hosts Warfighter Summit
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services Kuwait recently hosted a Warfighter Summit to discuss a variety of issues impacting the warfighter.
Feb. 21, 2025
DLA Disposition Services Launches New Training for Material Examiners
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Employees from multiple Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services sites recently gathered in Battle Creek for the inaugural Functional Block Two Training 6912 Material Examiner and Identifier course.
Feb. 19, 2025
Gimcheon material handler takes Employee of the Quarter honors
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Kyong Kuk Yu has worked for the agency in South Korea since 2019.
Feb. 14, 2025
Leadership spotlight: A Q&A with Joe Fagan
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Air Force veteran returned to federal service in 2011 and now serves as the DLA Disposition Services - Document Services Customer Audit & Engagement division lead.
Feb. 11, 2025
Veteran-owned small businesses can seek DOD surplus property
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An amendment signed in 2019 grants veteran-owned small businesses the opportunity to request property from the ever-evolving DLA Disposition Services surplus military equipment inventory.
Feb. 7, 2025
Employee Spotlight: Jose Garcia
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Get to know Jose Garcia, Material Examiner/ Identifier with DLA Disposition Services at San Antonio, Texas.
Feb. 4, 2025
PACE spotlight: Brett Curry
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Brett Curry is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Program Group 48, which began in 2024. For his second year in the PACE program, he will be placed at the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services site at Camp Pendleton, California.