DLA Distribution News

Aug. 16, 2022

DLA Distribution Red River rapidly deploys wheeled vehicles

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — A Friday request for four M142 high mobility artillery rocket system vehicles is met head on by Defense Logistics Agency Distribution’s Red River, Texas, workers.

Aug. 16, 2022

2022 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Janet Price

Fort Belvoir, VA — Janet Price, formerly of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, is a member of the 2022 DLA Hall of Fame.

Aug. 15, 2022

2022 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Benjamin “Gil” Perkins

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Benjamin “Gil” Perkins, a lawyer who represented DLA in protests before the Government Accountability Office, is a member of the 2022 DLA Hall of Fame. 

Aug. 12, 2022

2022 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Janet Hoffheins

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Janet Hoffheins, who helped make DLA Human Resources Services the preferred service provider by Fourth Estate agencies, is a member of the 2022 DLA Hall of Fame.

Aug. 11, 2022

2022 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Keith Ford

Fort Belvoir, VA — Keith Ford is a member of the 2022 Defense Logistics Agency Hall of Fame.

Aug. 10, 2022

Breaking records: DLA Energy quality assurance specialist has a need for speed

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Jaron Tyner, a DLA Energy Americas quality assurance representative, is a member of a motorcycle race team that’s won multiple world records for land speed racing.

Aug. 10, 2022

2022 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Kathryn Fantasia

Fort Belvoir, VA — Kathryn Fantasia, former head of direct delivery fuels for Defense Logistics Agency Energy, is a member of the 2022 DLA Hall of Fame.

Aug. 9, 2022

2022 DLA Hall of Fame inductee: Ted Case

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Edward "Ted" Case, who was known for driving some of the most consequential programs in DLA history, is a member of the 2022 DLA Hall of Fame.

Aug. 9, 2022

DLA Distribution San Joaquin, California, trains with DLA Disposition at COREX 2022

TRACY, Calif. — COREX22, led by DLA Disposition Services, is engineered to offer DLA with an opportunity to perform expeditionary disposition services. 

Aug. 8, 2022

DLA Installation Management Susquehanna hosts DLA Installation Management director

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Susquehanna hosted DLA Installation Management Director Don Phillips, who visited the New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, site Aug. 2.

Aug. 4, 2022

DLA Distribution Norfolk supports Operation Pacer Goose 2022

NORFOLK, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Norfolk, Virginia, employees loaded vital equipment July 23 onto the Ocean Gladiator out of New Orleans, Louisiana, in support of Operation Pacer Goose, the annual resupply of mission support items destined for Thule Air Base, Greenland.

Aug. 3, 2022

Groundwork by DLA, Forest Service preps firefighters for busy season

Fort Belvoir, VA — The Defense Logistics Agency works daily to support firefighters stopping fires in their tracks through planning and cooperation with firefighting agencies across the country.

Aug. 1, 2022

DLA Energy Americas celebrates North Pole DFSP ribbon cutting

NORTH POLE, Alaska — Americas’ last frontier celebrated the operation of its newest Defense Fuel Supply Point at the North Pole, Alaska, with a ribbon cutting July 26.

Aug. 1, 2022

2022 Contingency Operations Readiness Exercise comes to a successful end

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — As July ends, so too does the latest edition of the Defense Logistic Agency’s Contingency Operations Readiness Exercise in Battle Creek, Michigan. The exercise featured different parts of the agency working together across multiple sites – simulating an expeditionary environment.

July 29, 2022

DLA Installation Management Susquehanna sign painter retires after 40 years of federal service

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Susquehanna Sign Painter, Stan B. Hemler, is retiring after 40 years of federal service.