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Aug. 2, 2023
PaCE Spotlight: Thomas Martorana
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Thomas Martorana is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Program Group 44, which began in 2022. For his second year in the PaCE Program, he will be placed at the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services site at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
July 25, 2023
DLA expeditionary training event underway
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The 2023 Agency Contingency Operations Readiness event prepares expeditionary civilians, servicemembers and Rapid Deployment Teams for contingency response missions.
July 21, 2023
New training program fights against suicide
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — To increase suicide prevention awareness, Battle Creek Morale, Welfare and Recreation Family Program Manager and Licensed Master Social Worker Lisa Grenon invited Scott Teichmer, a member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Calhoun County and Question, Persuade, Refer Institute master trainer, to the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ most recent Leadership Summit for a new type of training.
July 18, 2023
Desert aerospace education boosted by DLA used property stocks
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The world’s biggest privately funded air and space museum has long relied on DLA’s military surplus and excess property pipeline to help execute its education mission.
July 17, 2023
Leadership Spotlight: Natalie Coulson
Battle Creek, Mich — The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
July 12, 2023
WMS rollout reaches 6-month milestone
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Disposition Services is transitioning to the Warehouse Management System and over the last six months has moved nine different sites to the new system and adapted training methods during the process.
July 3, 2023
PaCE Spotlight: Elizabeth Norvey
Battle Creek, Mich. — Elizabeth Norvey is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Program, group 42 beginning in 2021. For her second year in the PaCE Program, she was placed at the DLA Disposition Services site in Columbus, Ohio.
June 30, 2023
Acquisition powerhouses unite: DLA's contracting summit fuels collaboration and growth
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Over the course of a two-day summit, DLA acquisitions personnel assessed regulations, developed effective plans of action for process improvements and further advanced the agency’s capabilities in Battle Creek, Michigan.
June 26, 2023
Leadership Spotlight: Nicholas (Nick) Janik
BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Nick has served the country for 21 years, is a proud father and husband, and enjoys woodworking.
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.