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April 10, 2025
DLA focusing on digital interoperability for decision advantage
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Two Defense Logistics Agency leaders point to digital interoperability as the solution to gaining decision advantage on the battlefield and beyond in a white paper published in National Defense magazine.
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.
April 3, 2025
Marine Corps Deputy Commandant to logisticians: Deter, set the theater for potential conflicts
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — This agency is a strategic and critical enabler in the pursuit of setting the theater to deter and posture military forces to prevail, the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics told Defense Logistics Agency employees March 28.
April 1, 2025
Defending the Triad: Sustaining the Nuclear Sea Leg
COLUMBUS, Ohio — DLA Land and Maritime ensures the sea leg of the U.S. nuclear triad remains ready through expert logistics and close collaboration with Navy partners.
Commentary: Civil defense leads DLA to catastrophe response, whole-of-government support
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — There is a common misconception that DLA became a whole-of-government provider after Hurricane Katrina. While DLA did systemize its catastrophe response following the 2005 destruction of New Orleans, it's been helping the nation react to weather events since the early 1970s.
March 27, 2025
DLA and VHA sign 10-year, $3.6B partnership agreement
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Senior leaders from the Defense Logistics Agency and Veterans Health Administration signed an interagency agreement for healthcare support at DLA Headquarters March 12.
March 24, 2025
Real ID Act brings new identification requirements for domestic travel, installation access
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — After years of delays and extensions, the federal government’s Real ID Act is officially in effect, bringing new identification requirements for domestic air travel and access to federal facilities and military installations.
March 21, 2025
White paper: War reserves should include tactical energy storage, batteries
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Batteries and tactical energy storage should be included in pre-positioned war reserve materiel to ensure today’s modernized joint force is electronically equipped for success, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime officials say in a white paper published last month.
March 20, 2025
Troop Support provides Medal of Honor decorations to American heroes
PHILADELPHIA — The highest military honor awarded by the United States, is procured by a team of logisticians at Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support in Philadelphia.
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 17, 2025
AI to boost efficiency, optimize logistics support as DLA standardizes use of new tech
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — AI is already empowering decisions across DLA with over 55 models in various stages of production, testing and use in areas like demand planning and supply chain risk management.
March 14, 2025
DLA vehicle managers use technology to enhance safety, operational efficiency
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency is modernizing its fleet management practices using technology monitoring vehicle use and employee driving behaviors to make informed decisions about safety, costs and operational efficiency.
March 13, 2025
DLA applying AI to supply chain risk management, warfighter readiness
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Approaching supply chain risk management with a proactive, data-centric mindset and artificial intelligence will ensure DLA provides stable warfighter support and reduces the impacts of supply chain disruptions.
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.
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.
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 6, 2025
Battlefield logistics: Collective capabilities key to allied success
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Resilient logistics capabilities will be vital to operational success in future large-scale combat operations, according to a new eight-page white paper titled "Support at the Forward Edge of the Battlefield: Lessons Learned."
March 4, 2025
Procure-to-Pay Outbound MIPR team helps agency reach milestones
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency’s Procure-to-Pay Outbound Military Interdepartmental Purchase Program reached a milestone 10 years in the making by increasing its timeliness rate in processing financial transactions with other partners and agencies within 10 days or less. The agency increased workflow timeliness from 72% in 2015 to 93%. The DLA goal is 95%.
Feb. 26, 2025
Scholarships available for students of DLA employees
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The DLA Foundation is offering scholarships to students who have a close family connection to a current or past civilian or military DLA employee.
Feb. 19, 2025
Legislative affairs team strengthens collaboration across agency
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Members of the DLA Legislative Affairs team renew their commitment to provide timely and thorough input for Congressional inquiries that often shape policies and influence how DLA supports warfighters.
Feb. 18, 2025
DLA director describes partnerships, strategies to increase warfighter readiness
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Great partnerships don't just happen. They take a strong commitment on both sides to establish an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation necessary for a productive engagement, the Defense Logistics Agency’s director said in his keynote address during the National Defense Industrial Association’s 39th Annual Logistics Forum in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 11.
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.
New report details DLA’s fiscal, warfighter support achievements
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA's Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report details how employees worked with joint logisticians at DOD and the combatant commands to achieve enough obligations and revenue to place the agency within the top 350 companies in the Fortune 500 rankings.
Feb. 10, 2025
What’s in a name? The accuracy and uses of DLA’s title
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The apparent clarity of DLA's name belies the messiness that created it.
Jan. 30, 2025
Retired general to logisticians: The next war requires a new strategy
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — War strategies and groundwork of United States adversaries in the Pacific have set conditions for a battle unlike any in the past, the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Defense Logistics Agency employees Jan. 23.