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June 23, 2023
DLA helps with digital scanning of century-old glass pathology slides
SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Joint Pathology Center possesses the nation’s oldest pathology tissue repository and one of the largest in the world with over 55 million glass slides and 30 million tissue blocks. For more than a century, its specialists have collected diseased tissue samples, preserving them for medical researchers of the future.
June 22, 2023
Disposition Services efforts in Jacksonville encompass even the largest of items
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services site in Jacksonville, Florida, recently assisted in the demilitarization efforts of 72 individual aircraft center barrels.
June 21, 2023
“Lifeless” breakroom redone with regional Italian flair
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Massimo’s Bistro, named for a longtime local national agency employee at the Aviano site, opened to critical acclaim in May.
June 19, 2023
Editorial: DLA helps DOD meet digital records requirements by June 2024
NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services - Document Services is helping the Defense Department digitize paper records to meet National Archives and Records Administration requirements by June 2024.
June 18, 2023
PaCE Spotlight: Ryan Kirby
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Ryan Kirby is an Environmental Operations Monitor for Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Disposal Services Directorate Europe and Africa region in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He participated in the Pathways to Career Excellence Program from 2015 to 2017.
June 16, 2023
Leadership Spotlight: Jason Roberts
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Meet Jason Roberts, woodworker, Navy veteran and proud father.
June 12, 2023
Lejeune supplies training aides one vehicle at a time
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Disposition Services Lejeune site recently provided multiple military service units with valuable training tools in the form of demilitarized vehicles.
June 5, 2023
Leadership Spotlight: Terra Nguyen
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Terra is the Equipment Management Solutions Director and has been with the agency for almost two decades.
June 2, 2023
ACOR to bring deployment skill training to Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — This summer’ expeditionary readiness will help get civilian property disposal personnel and new agency reserve military members “back to basics” on reverse logistics know-how.
May 25, 2023
Disposition Services Eglin continues providing support to services
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A look into how the Defense Logistics Agency’s Disposition Services site in Eglin, Florida, supports a variety of customers in the region.
May 23, 2023
Globetrotting EOQ winner serves warfighters where they are
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Italy-based Operations Supervisor Angela Sakryd enjoys the unique challenges that property disposal can bring.
May 19, 2023
Disposition Services adds autonomous floor cleaner to inventory
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Disposition Services is collaborating with DLA R&D, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to test an autonomous floor scrubber in a warehouse setting.
May 18, 2023
Ohio RTCH reuse saves over $1 million
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services team in Columbus, Ohio, knew they could put a Rough Terrain Container Handler to good use, but with a price tag of over $1 million for a new one, it was just out of reach.
May 17, 2023
Standout Alaska-based disposal specialist aims to inspire others
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — When some longtime customers recently visited DLA’s property disposal site in Anchorage, they started looking around for ‘the big guy’ and asking where he was. They didn’t realize they were talking directly to him.
May 15, 2023
PaCE Spotlight: Courtney Carroll
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Courtney Carroll is a property disposal specialist within the Disposal Policy Branch at Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She participated in the Pathways to Career Excellence Program from 2012 to 2014 as a part of PaCE Group B for fiscal year 2012.
May 10, 2023
Collaborating to bring WMS online
Battle Creek, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency’s transition to the Warehouse Management System is fully underway at DLA Disposition Services field sites worldwide as multiple parts of the agency work together to ensure its success.
May 8, 2023
Shared DLA office space in San Diego a win-win
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A fire forced DLA Disposition Services personnel into DLA Document Services spaces during the pandemic. With ongoing organizational realignment bringing the two organizations together, perhaps the entire network can experience some of the positives that emerged from the Southern California experiment.
May 5, 2023
Guam school gets free flat panel monitors through DLA
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The 227 used devices were provided via DLA’s Computers For Learning tech donation effort.
May 4, 2023
Disposition Services joining forces with Document Services
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency is undergoing an organizational change as it realigns Document Services to fall under the purview of Disposition Services.
May 3, 2023
Leadership Spotlight: Richard TeBeau
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Meet DLA Document Services Director Richard TeBeau.
May 1, 2023
Commentary: Week-long mentorship with DLA Disposition Services regional director
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Recently, DLA Disposition Services PaCE Program, Group 44 traveled from the headquarters’ location of Battle Creek, Michigan, to Richmond, Virginia, as their first temporary duty assignment.
April 28, 2023
DLA Distribution hosts DLA Disposition Services Director
NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Topics of discussion included several continual process improvement projects that affect both DLA agencies.
April 24, 2023
Texas band director creates music and musicians with military excess
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Used professional-level musical instruments are turned in to the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services from all the Armed Forces musical bands each year. Most of them need some repair but are still a valuable asset to teach the next generation of musicians.
April 21, 2023
Fraud Prevention and Deterrence
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An effective fraud awareness program and training are key. Memorandums, leadership training, organization-wide emails, and formal training programs are highly effective methods for preventing fraud. All levels of the organization should participate in efforts to mitigate the likelihood of fraud.
April 20, 2023
PaCE Spotlight: Paul Riggs
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Pathways to Career Excellence Program for DLA Disposition Services is a two-year program that takes PaCERs through all of Disposition Services and its processes to learn as much as possible about the directorate.