Disposition Services News

A large forklift removes a truck from a flat bed semitruck.

Dec. 31, 2024

2024 Highlights: North-East

BATTLE CREEK — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services North-East Region’s Director Beth Ford said that her team had a challenging and exciting 2024. “The linchpin to our success was leveraging our New Employee Orientation program to make our team more efficient and effective and emphasize the collective capabilities of our entire regional network versus any specific site.”

A tracked vehicle sits in an icy parking lot.

Dec. 26, 2024

2024 Highlights: Operations

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The directorate at the heart of the agency’s reverse logistics business rolls into the new year with a clear focus on strengthening data analytics and fine-tuning customer service.

A woman holds a clipboard as she writes on it. she is standing in a Wearhouse looking towards hospital beds.

Dec. 23, 2024

2024 Highlights: Mid America

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services’ Mid-America region had what Region Director Jessie Parisano called “a great 2024.”

A civilian helps a soldier understand turn-in guidance while looking at an Army vehicle.

Dec. 18, 2024

2024 Highlights: Europe and Africa

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Disposition personnel overseas deployed WMS in warehouses and field scenarios, trained scores of forward-deployed warfighters on proper turn-in procedures, and helped units increase their readiness by taking excess property off the books.

A man with his back to the camera serves food to two women wearing holiday sweaters.

Dec. 17, 2024

Disposition Services serves another holiday breakfast in Battle Creek

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Palm Garden Room at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center smelled of flapjacks and buzzed of amusement as employees lined up for breakfast cooked by their senior leaders.

A truck is unloaded from an LCAC onto a larger vessel.

Dec. 13, 2024

2024 Highlights: Pacific

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — All across the Indo-Pacific, agency reverse logistics professionals helped warfighters meet their mission in a part of the world that grows more important to U.S. national security objectives with each passing year.

10 tracked vehicles with a forward cab and an attached passenger compartment sit on a snow covered parking lot with the sun coming up in the background. snow covered mountains can be seen in the distance.

Battle Creek, Mich. Dec. 10, 2024

2024 Highlights: West

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — “We had a pretty good year,” said Christopher Buchanan, Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services West Region Director. He said region personnel provided outstanding support to customers, assisting them in achieving their missions. Internally, he said the group also achieved significant results.

Men drive a firefighting truck around an off-road vehicle testing area.

Dec. 6, 2024

Michigan wildfire workshop promotes military surplus equipment repurposing

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — An annual gathering of wildfire response experts in Roscommon highlights federally-supported Firefighter Property Program benefits and the conversion of DLA-sourced former military vehicles and equipment to modern firefighting apparatus.

Dec. 4, 2024

2024 Highlights: Contracting

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A look at some of the 2024 highlights from the DLA Disposition Services Contracting Division.

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