DLA Distribution News

Aug. 5, 2020

Summer 2020 newsletter offers latest R&D news

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The summer 2020 edition of The Innovator is now available. The Innovator is electronically published quarterly with articles and information for employees on research and development projects, updates, and upcoming events and activities.

Aug. 5, 2020

DLA Distribution Corpus Christi, Texas, PPP&M Team wins Defense Department Packaging Achievement Award

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — The Preservation, Packaging, Packing and Marking team from Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Corpus Christi, Texas, received the 2019 Defense Department Packaging Achievement Award.

Aug. 4, 2020

San Joaquin’s Green selected as the Global Distribution Excellence Administrative Support Performance of the Year awardee

TRACY, Calif. — Administrative Assistant David Green of the Consolidation and Containerization Point at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, California, was selected for Global Distribution Excellence for Administrative Support Performance of the Year honors.

Male wearing a face mask works on a piece of equipment outdoors.

Aug. 3, 2020

ASOC, COVID-19 Task Force integrate DLA’s pandemic support

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Department’s leading logistics agency had its eye on COVID-19 before the U.S. reported its first person-to-person transmission on Jan. 30.

July 30, 2020

San Joaquin’s Cruz retires after 42 years of federal service

TRACY, Calif. — Distribution Process Worker Leader Philip Cruz Jr. of the Bin Packing Division at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, California, is retiring after 42 years of dedicated federal service in support of America’s warfighters.

Examples of personal protective equipment like face masks and non-contact thermometers are accompanied by text saying "State and Local Government FedMall Purchasing Program"

July 29, 2020

DLA offers non-medical COVID-19 protective equipment to state, local government agencies

Fort Belvoir, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency is giving state and local government organizations a new option for purchasing non-medical personal protective equipment through the COVID-19 Contingency Corridor in FedMall, the government e-commerce platform for the military services and federal, state and local government agencies.

July 28, 2020

DLA Distribution Norfolk fulfills resupply mission for Operation Pacer Goose

NORFOLK, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Norfolk, Virginia’s Pier 8 is a hotbed of activity every summer in preparation of Operation Pacer Goose, an annual resupply mission to Thule Air Base, a remote U.S. Air Force base in the Arctic region of Greenland.

July 27, 2020

DLA Aviation leader shares experiences from COVID-19 Supply Chain Task Force assignment

RICHMOND, Va. — On April 10, I traveled to Northern Virginia for a 60-day assignment serving on the COVID-19 Supply Chain Task Force with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where I was able to see the pandemic’s global impact.

Woman in white Navy dress uniform speaks at a podium with the Defense Logistics Agency flag in the background.

July 27, 2020

Skubic becomes DLA’s 20th director

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency welcomed Navy Vice Adm. Michelle Skubic back as its 20th director during an assumption of responsibility ceremony at the McNamara Headquarters Complex July 24.

July 27, 2020

DLA San Joaquin Firefighters assist in saving homes

TRACY, Calif. — The fire crew at Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management San Joaquin’s Fire Station 262 were dispatched for mutual aid by South San Joaquin County Dispatch in the late afternoon of July 5. They were later called out for a second alarm working residential structure fire in the city of Tracy, California.

July 24, 2020

Reventlow returns to DLA Distribution as Commanding General

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — In a virtual ceremony signifying a change of leadership at Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Headquarters in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, DLA Distribution Acting Director, Perry L. Knight, passed the helm to Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Keith D. Reventlow, July 21. Acting DLA Director, Michael D. Scott, Senior Executive Service, presided over the ceremony via video teleconference from DLA Headquarters in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia.

Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Richmond’s Warehouse 11 is considered a historic building at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. The nearly 270,000-square-foot facility stores bulk material, parachutes and energy-dissipating pads for the Defense Department. Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will manage an $8.1 million renovation expected to get underway by fall. (Photo by Jackie Roberts/DLA Installations Support Branch)

July 23, 2020

World War II-era warehouse at Richmond depot to get major overhaul

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Defense Logistics Agency are teaming up on a project to restore a Defense Supply Center Richmond warehouse built in 1942.

July 22, 2020

DLA Distribution’s French retires after 42 years of service

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Ramona French began her DLA career in 1989 at the Defense Depot Memphis, Tennessee, where she worked as a Systems Administrator for six years.

White woman in Navy dress blue uniform with ribbons

July 21, 2020

Former DLA Land and Maritime commander named new DLA director

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — The U.S. Senate confirmed July 20 Navy Rear Adm. Michelle Skubic for appointment to the rank of vice admiral and director of the Defense Logistics Agency.

Black male soldier in camo uniform and blue surgical mask places an unseen COVID-19 test same into a machine.

July 21, 2020

DLA helps small businesses support military, nation during pandemic

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — From gowns, gloves and pharmaceuticals for the USS Comfort and Mercy to decontamination systems for medical workers’ N95 masks, America’s small businesses are helping meet the nation’s demand for COVID-19 supplies.