DLA Energy News

Oct. 15, 2024

DLA Energy’s Task Force Americas provides over 300,000 gallons of fuel support during Hurricane Helene recovery efforts

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Energy’s Task Force Americas provides petroleum products enabling critical power generation and distribution of supplies to rural areas across eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and Georgia in support of hurricane recovery efforts.

Oct. 11, 2024

External partnership could be ‘vital’ to DLA Aviation success in Richmond

RICHMOND, Va. — Defense Supply Center Richmond, the home of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, hosted the inaugural advisory board meeting for a new, community-led alliance supporting military installations and missions Oct. 10 at the center’s historic Bellwood Manor House.

Oct. 11, 2024

Defense fuel support at Craney Island: Fostering partnership

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Energy’s newest Commander Navy Rear Adm. George Bresnihan visited fuel facilities at the Defense Fuel Support Point Craney Island in Portsmouth, Virginia and Chambers Airfield in Norfolk, Virginia, during his first trip since taking command.

Oct. 10, 2024

National Disability Employment Awareness Month – Jeremy Reeves

RICHMOND, Va. — October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an effort to confirm the federal government’s commitment to ensuring disabled workers have access to good jobs, every month of every year.

Oct. 8, 2024

DLA Energy leaders focus on solutions to contested logistics problems in EUCOM, AFRICOM

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Defense Logistics Agency Energy senior leaders met with DLA Europe & Africa teams, U.S. military leaders and coalition partners from 18 countries during the 19th Fuel Exchange Agreements Forum in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Oct. 7, 2024

DLA supplies active-duty troops assisting Hurricane Helene response

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA is working with U.S. Northern Command to ensure active-duty troops are equipped to help federal, state and local officials clear routes and transport supplies to remote areas in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene.

Oct. 5, 2024

DLA Energy Program Management Office: On the move

OKINAWA, Japan — The Defense Logistics Agency Energy Acquisition Support Division Program Management Office in collaboration with the Commander Action Group’s Defense Travel Services manager conducted an Indo-Pacific Staff Assistance Visit in Okinawa, Japan.

Oct. 3, 2024

National Disability Employment Awareness Month – Dennis Kerstetter

RICHMOND, Va. — October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an effort to confirm the federal government’s commitment to ensuring disabled workers have access to good jobs, every month of every year. In observance of NDEAM, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation will feature employees with disabilities.

Oct. 2, 2024

Changes in warfare require new approach to logistics support, director says in town hall 

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The DLA director talks about how the agency will remain competitive and responsive to future needs and answers a question about DLA’s telework policy during the Global Town Hall Oct. 1.

Sept. 30, 2024

When suicide hits home, the heartache of losing a loved one goes on

For Angela Phillips, a management and program analyst with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Oklahoma City, National Suicide Prevention Month in September has taken on a profound significance. What began as subtle changes in her husband of 30 years after returning from a deployment – a little more sleep, a little less joy – transformed into a heart-wrenching journey that no one can fully prepare for.