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Joe Moore, a DLA Land & Maritime weapon system support manager, is featured in the latest video on DLA acquisition professionals.

April 20, 2016

Land & Maritime employee featured in new video

A new acquisition professionals video focusing on a DLA Land & Maritime employee was released on the organization’s YouTube and Facebook sites April 20.

DLA Aviation employee Kim Chambers works as a purchasing agent career field and is Level II certified.

April 13, 2016

Aviation employee featured in new video

RICHMOND, Virginia — A new acquisition professionals video focusing on a DLA Aviation employee was released on the organization’s YouTube and Facebook sites April 13.

DLA Troop Support Commander Army Brig. Gen. Charles Hamilton presents Evan Eisenberg with a Commander’s Coin and congratulations letter March 31, 2016 for earning the DLA Acquisition Professional Supporting Small Business award. Eisenberg was selected for the award for planning and awarding two contracts for the Navy Working Uniform to small businesses in fiscal 2015.

April 12, 2016

C&T contracting officer earns DLA recognition for small business awards

PHILADELPHIA — Awarding contracts to small businesses, resulting in best value support to customers, earned a DLA Troop Support contracting officer agency-wide recognition.

Navy and Subsistence prime vendor personnel load the USS Stennis with food March 16 before the aircraft carrier departs Naval Base Busan, Republic of Korea, for Operation Foal Eagle. The annual training exercise promotes the partnership between the United States and South Korea.

April 6, 2016

DLA Troop Support Pacific conducts ‘symphony’ of food support for Key Resolve/Foal Eagle

PHILADELPHIA — To see the many moving pieces of equipment loading food onto a Navy aircraft carrier before a training exercise with the Republic of Korea was "like watching a symphony play," a logistician with DLA Troop Support Pacific said.

The latest DLA Acquisition Professionals video profiles Owen Hassig of DLA Energy.

April 6, 2016

DLA Energy employee featured in new video

A new acquisition professionals video focusing on a DLA Energy employee was released on the organization’s YouTube and Facebook sites April 6.

April 5, 2016

New commanders selected for three DLA activities

Defense Logistics Agency Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Andy Busch has announced the selection of new commanders for three DLA activities: Air Force Brig. Gen. Martin Chapin, DLA Energy; Army Col. John Laskodi, DLA Distribution; and Navy Rear Adm. Michelle Skubic, DLA Land and Maritime.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, right, watches a robotics demonstration during a tour of the Rehabilitation and Neuromuscular Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, March 31, 2016. The Texas visit was part of a multistate trip that also included a stop today in Cambridge, Mass., and is part of the DoD effort to partner with the private sector and academia to ensure the United States continues to lead in the new frontiers of technology. DoD photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Clydell Kinchen

April 1, 2016

Carter: DoD-MIT Partnership to Produce Fabrics That See, Hear, Sense

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that DoD is partnering with an 89-member consortium to establish a new manufacturing innovation institute focused on revolutionary fibers and textiles.

Vietnam War veterans are cheered on by volunteers as they parade down a red-carpet into a Vietnam War Commemoration program March 29, 2016 at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Philadelphia, PA. More than 400 Vietnam War era veterans attended the event sponsored by the Association of the United States Army and Vietnam War Commemoration partners Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

March 31, 2016

Troop Support employees help welcome home Vietnam vets

PHILADELPHIA — The welcome home was worth the 50-year wait, one veteran said following a Vietnam War Commemoration program March 29. DLA Troop Support employees helped cheer for more than 400 Vietnam vets as they paraded down a red carpet to the ceremony.

DLA Aviation employee Comeicha Wells works in the purchasing acquisition career field and is Level II certified.

March 30, 2016

DLA Aviation employee featured in latest 'Acquisition Professionals' video

A new acquisition professionals video focusing on a DLA Aviation employee was released on the organization’s YouTube and Facebook sites March 30.

Michael Rector (left), DLA Joint Contingency Acquisition Support Office lead planner, and William Sanders, U.S. Central Command director of contracting support, learned about the vetting process for DLA Troop Support contracts in the CENTCOM area of responsibility March 16.

March 24, 2016

CENTCOM logisticians learn value of overseas industry vetting program

PHILADELPHIA — Two logisticians who support U.S. Central Command were briefed March 16 on the vetting process for DLA Troop Support’s overseas contracts.