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Feb. 9, 2021

Collaboration and understanding improves national supply chain

When an opportunity arose to improve the national supply chain, DLA Distribution Deputy Commander (former Chief of Staff) Perry Knight, Senior Executive Service, tasked Improvement Specialist, Sherry Amrhein, to put a team in place to start researching a solution to a U.S. General Services Administration export transshipment issue.

Feb. 9, 2021

Product Test Lab verifies conformance of COVID-19 supplies, military gear

A Defense Logistics Agency laboratory known for burning boots, crushing helmets and ripping combat uniforms is also putting COVID-19 surgical gowns through 25 cycles of wash – all in the name of safety and product conformance.

Feb. 8, 2021

Mid-America team honored with agency award

Defense Logistics Agency employees from DLA Disposition Services’ Mid-America region were among the personnel honored in the DLA Director's Strategic Goals Award for the 4th Quarter of fiscal 2020.

Feb. 7, 2021

HDI Fitness center reopens

Keeping things clean and sanitized is the name of the game for the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center fitness facility as people are once again welcomed back to work out.

Feb. 5, 2021

One aircraft, two missions: Travis AFB C-17 delivers aid to support two COCOMs

Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Travis Air Force Base website — The Airmen of the 60th Air Mobility Wing delivered COVID-19 personal protective equipment and humanitarian aid bound for two separate combatant commands.

Feb. 5, 2021

Good idea nets big savings

While Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services employees usually market reusable materials to warfighters, the Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, staff recently became their own customers when a good idea helped solve a messy problem.

Feb. 3, 2021

DLA Distribution coordinates COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to DOD locations in South Korea

As part of the Defense Department’s mission to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Korea is coordinating with DLA Indo-Pacific, U.S. Army Medical Material Center Korea, FedEx and U.S. Forces Korea Provost Marshall Office to ensure successful delivery of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to U.S. Forces Korea.

Feb. 2, 2021

DLA Disposition Services manager shares COVID-19 support story

Keeping employees safe, supporting warfighters, helping the nation fight COVID-19 – that’s what Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Camp Pendleton Area Manager Luis Guzman did with his 2020.

Feb. 2, 2021

DLA Customer Interaction Center connects customers with supplies

Day, night, weekend or holiday, Defense Logistics Agency customers are only about seven seconds away from speaking to a live representative who can provide answers to supply questions ranging from an order’s delivery status to equipment availability.

Jan. 29, 2021

Online class encourages healthier choices in 2021

Making healthier choices is a common resolution to start a new year, and the Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation Program offered help Jan. 26 with a virtual class to encourage wiser choices in our diets.

Jan. 28, 2021

DLA individuals, teams honored in virtual award ceremony

The 53rd Annual Employee Awards Ceremony recognizes leadership and hard work in support of the agency’s mission with 54 awards in categories such as leaders of the year and acquisition excellence.

Jan. 27, 2021

DLA Distribution Tobyhanna improves material identification with a simple continuous process improvement tool

Tobyhanna Army Depot CECOM examiner initiated a simple fix to a communication challenge that improved receiving bay workflow. 

Jan. 26, 2021

New procurement technical assistance center to help Mariana Island businesses grow

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has a new Procurement Technical Assistance Center to help businesses compete for and perform contracts with the Defense Department.

Jan. 26, 2021

Anchorage property disposal site featured in recent local television segment

Television station KTUU’s “Inside the Gates” regularly focuses its camera on happenings at Alaska’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. On Jan. 21, its focus fell on DLA Disposition Services.

Jan. 24, 2021

Former military officer now molds future civilian leaders

Among the challenges of the pandemic is offering personnel development program for new trainees that goes beyond classrooms for on-the-job assignments, cross-training and rotational opportunities, but such is the job of the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ new Pathways to Career Excellence Program Manager Steve Wilson.