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Dec. 19, 2025

DLA interns contribute to sustainability and mission success

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Civilian Training Corps interns recognized for their contributions during their summer assignment to the DLA Information Operations Research and Development team.

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Dec. 19, 2025

Humble excellence defines 4 decades of service for retiring DLA Distribution leader

Gene Surmacz, chief of staff, Defense Logistics Agency Distribution, was honored at a retirement ceremony Dec.16, marking the end of a distinguished career spanning more than 40 years of military service and civilian leadership.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Infantry Division (1 ID) enjoy food and gifts during a Christmas party at Boleslawiec, Poland, Dec. 25, 2022. Defense Logistics Agency Subsistence supply chain helps to keep morale high by giving servicemembers around the globe the smells and tastes of the December holidays. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Kevin T. Brown Jr.)

Dec. 18, 2025

DLA Troop Support Subsistence keeps morale alive with December holiday meals

PHILADELPHIA — While Santa Claus prepares his Christmas Eve deliveries, the Defense Logistics Agency has already delivered holiday cheer in the form of meals to U.S. service members stationed around the world.

Several parachuters descend with text overlay saying "Just Enough Logistics: Shifting the Logistics Paradigm," by Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly and LTC Daniel Marvin

Dec. 17, 2025

‘Just enough logistics’ shifts paradigm in military supply chain readiness

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In response to increasingly complex and asymmetric battlefield environments, new strategies are being advanced to recalibrate how logistics enable warfighter readiness and operational agility.

Text says DLA Dialogues From Factory to Foxhole, special guest Air Force Col. Ryan LeBlanc with an outline of a microphone over a globe

Dec. 16, 2025

Agency podcast spotlights DLA’s wargaming approach to strategic modernization

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The latest episode of DLA’s podcast series explores how wargaming and strategic planning efforts are positioning the agency to tackle future logistics challenges and advance its modernization agenda.

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Dec. 10, 2025

Learn how DLA keeps warfighters fed in ‘Behind the Bite’

Feeding the nation’s warfighters is a job that spans the globe. Whether it’s in the field, on a ship or in a dining facility, millions of troops need nutritious food to stay mission ready. he story of how the Defense Logistics Agency gets food to 1.5 million warfighters around the world is told in the new “Behind the Bite” video.

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Dec. 5, 2025

New issue of Loglines highlights ‘Agile Logistics for a Changing World’

The latest issue of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Loglines magazine is now available.

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Dec. 3, 2025

Riverview Grill reopening enhances quality of life at DLA Defense Distribution Center Susquehanna

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management at Susquehanna Family Morale, Welfare and Recreation hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of the Riverview Grill at the Riverview Golf Course located on Defense Distribution Center Susquehanna in New Cumberland, Nov. 24.

Defense Logistics Agency and industry association leaders pose for a group photo after the Demand Forecast and Industry Association Leadership Meeting at Fort Belvoir, Va., Nov. 17, 2025. (DOD photo by Chris Lynch)

Dec. 1, 2025

DLA shares strategic plans, demand forecast with industry

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Partnership with industry is crucial to combating contested logistics, the Defense Logistics Agency director emphasized during a Demand Forecast and Industry Association Leadership Meeting at the McNamara Headquarters Complex Nov. 17.

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Nov. 24, 2025

Vital Space Force support continues from DLA Distribution Norfolk

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Norfolk, Virginia has completed the annual replenishment of Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, a vital component of the National Defense Strategy.

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Nov. 24, 2025

DLA service members share holiday spirit with local veterans

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly a dozen service members from Defense Logistics Agency Weapons Support (Columbus) took a break from their usual duties on Nov. 21 to take on a different mission – serving meals at a Veterans Affairs Thanksgiving Luncheon held at the American Legion Post 144 on the south side of the city.

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Nov. 20, 2025

DLA Distribution Bahrain completes Material Processing Center transition

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Bahrain leadership held a ceremony to commemorate the official transition of Material Processing Center operations from Al Hidd to DLA Distribution Bahrain onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain Nov. 2.

U.S. Army Col. Tanya Simmons, the deputy commanding officer of the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, and Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Quintana, command sergeant major, 17th Sutainment Brigade, serve Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Nov. 28, 2024. DLA Subsistence begins coordination in the Spring to ensure servicemembers around the globe have a taste of home during the Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Adrianne Lopez)

Nov. 20, 2025

Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence continues Thanksgiving support for service members around the world

PHILADELPHIA — Wherever America’s troops are serving around the globe, they will experience the taste and smells of home this holiday, thanks to the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Subsistence team.

William Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, speaks to Defense Logistics Agency employees about modernization to counter global threats at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Oct. 22, 2025. The event is part of DLA’s Campaign of Learning to foster understanding and collaboration among joint logisticians dealing with new threats in the competition for world power. (DOD photo by Chris Lynch)

Nov. 19, 2025

Modernization key to countering global threats, former counterintelligence director says

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency must adapt to the complexities of a rapidly changing global landscape by modernizing its approaches to cybersecurity and supply chain security, William Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, told DLA personnel at a recent Warfighter Talk.

Four men stand behind a table with a sheet cake on it. Two of them are wearing military uniforms and one of the uniformed men is cutting the cake.

Nov. 17, 2025

DLA Distribution Susquehanna celebrates milestone Marine Corps birthday

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, leadership recognized the 250th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps with a cake cutting ceremony Nov. 5.