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Battle Creek, Michigan Nov. 12, 2020
Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services sets new standards with virtual safety summit
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services held a virtual Material Handling Equipment Safety Summit in November. Due to travel restrictions put in place by the Defense Department to help combat the pandemic, the annual material handling event was held online for the first time.
Nov. 9, 2020
Excess property continues to aid fight against pandemic
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Forces battling the pandemic have much to be thankful for this year as Defense Logistics Agency employees at DLA Disposition Services locations across the country have transferred almost $36.8 million worth of excess military items to service members and first responders working to stop the coronavirus spread and help those already afflicted.
Nov. 3, 2020
Cannon shares intent for coming year
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The DLA Disposition Services director’s remarks closed out a virtual leadership summit recently hosted in Battle Creek.
A conversation with DLA Disposition Services Deputy Director Col. Franyate Taylor
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Meet DLA Disposition Services Deputy Director Army Col. Franyate Taylor. Taylor shares her first impressions, her expectations and a little about herself.
Oct. 28, 2020
Disposition leaders tackle business questions at a distance
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Annual summit continues with appraisals of 2020 successes and evaluations of oncoming operating challenges.
Oct. 27, 2020
Leadership sync perseveres through pandemic
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Annual leaders meet up continues online in an upended 2020.
Oct. 26, 2020
A moment in time: 100 years ago
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Dr. John Harvey Kellogg gathered the Battle Creek Sanitarium staff for a photograph a century ago on October 26, 1920.
Oct. 23, 2020
DLA to help Army make excess historic artifacts available
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A five-year project will make some of the 580,000 items in the Army Museum Enterprise available to qualifying organizations.
Oct. 16, 2020
Returning customer reaches $5 million mark in reusable items
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Defense Logistics Agency employees at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, recently resumed issuing usable excess property to transfer and donation customers as pandemic restrictions eased, allowing one customer to reach the $5 million mark in property acquired through the agency.
Oct. 13, 2020
New group shares benefits of bees
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A small group of bee enthusiasts swarmed together online and by phone Oct. 7 to kick off the first session of the All in Bee Club Support Group.
Oct. 12, 2020
NY hospital gets infant bed donation
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — St. Charles Hospital, in Long Island, recently got an equipment donation from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with the help of DLA Disposition Services.
Oct. 7, 2020
New site chief shows resilience
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — A new leader among the Defense Logistics Agency employees at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, recently demonstrated some of the strength and endurance he uses on the job to take first place in a local swim meet.
Oct. 6, 2020
Hulk hauled from Hanscom
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A hefty aircraft used as a static trainer for decades was demilitarized and scrapped by DLA in September.
Oct. 5, 2020
DLA to scrap five warships
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services will recycle five retired U.S. Navy ships as part of a new scrap sales contract to save taxpayer money and protect the environment.
Oct. 2, 2020
New deal is moving out the metal
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — Large piles of scrap metal in Kuwait will be whittled down under a new contract the Defense Logistics Agency arranged with a local company.
Bagram, Afghanistan Sept. 30, 2020
Bagram workers light up the night
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Defense Logistics Agency employees recently defied the darkness of the Afghan night to keep important cargo moving.
Sept. 24, 2020
Teamwork makes short work out of long containers
Anniston, Alabama — Strong partnerships between two major subordinate commands of the Defense Logistics Agency helped ensure the safe and economical disposal of 150 helicopter blade containers that had become obsolete.
Sept. 23, 2020
Surplus DOD tanker truck used to haul ethanol for hand sanitizer for Nebraska emergency workers, schools
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An excess military tanker truck repurposed by the Nebraska Forest Service for firefighting was recently pressed into service as an ethanol hauler for hand sanitizer being used by emergency managers and public schools.
Sept. 22, 2020
Employee praised for helping new agency operations center
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employee was recognized Sept. 14 for his service as one of the early volunteers for temporary duty at the Agency Synchronization Operations Center at DLA Headquarters on Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Sept. 21, 2020
It's business as usual for Fort Meade's property disposal experts
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Property disposal staff at the DLA Disposition Services site at Fort Meade, Maryland, were recently featured in a "Logistics On Location" highlight video produced by the agency.
Sept. 17, 2020
Leadership Spotlight: Tracy Hart
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Get to know Tracy Hart, DLA Disposition Services director of contracting.
Fort Bragg, North Carolina Sept. 16, 2020
New commander visits Bragg site
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Warfighter first and strong partnership are two tenants of the Defense Logistics Agency strategic plan that were reinforced as the staff at the DLA Disposition Services’ site at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, hosted a new unit commander for a tour.
Sept. 15, 2020
Illinois school receives $55k in computers
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — More than $2 million in used and excess information technology has been donated through Computers For Learning in 2020.
Sept. 12, 2020
Excess military vehicle becomes a dual purpose firefighting truck
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Selden Volunteer Fire Department members transformed a 2003 Stewart Stevenson truck from the Defense Logistics Agency into a firefighting machine to help protect their community and surrounding area.
Sept. 10, 2020
Partner agencies receive $18 million in supplies during pandemic response
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — As autumn approaches, DLA Disposition Services continues its support of pandemic response by supplying the armed forces and first responders with a variety of materials. “We’ve recently exceeded a total of $18 million in excess and surplus supplies and equipment provided to customers for COVID-19 relief efforts,” said DLA Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon.