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September is Defense Logistics Agency’s Resiliency Month, and Sep. 7 was celebrated as Resiliency Day across the agency. The DLA’s Office of Operations Research and Resource Analysis, more commonly known as DORRA, participated in resiliency day with several events.

Sept. 28, 2016

Commentary: DORRA employees embrace resiliency

Richmond, VA — Resiliency is one of those things that we work at every day on our own and with the encouragement of others. September is Defense Logistics Agency’s Resiliency Month, and Sep. 7 was celebrated as Resiliency Day across the agency. It was a time set aside to provide employees an opportunity to accentuate their actions to maintain and improve resiliency in their lives.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation employee, Maria Friend is a contracting intern in the Supplier Operations Directorate on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia. She enjoys the working relationships of contracting, quality assurance, material planning, and customer account support for our warfighters.

Sept. 27, 2016

Employee Spotlight: Maria Friend

Richmond, VA — What is your job title, and what do you do, specifically? DLA Aviation Pathways Student Intern (Contracting). I support my section by performing pre-award functions inclusive of acquisition planning, soliciting, evaluation, negotiation, and the awarding of contracts compliant with Federal Government Regulations and Policies.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Allan Day presents a certificate of appreciation to Bobby Tyler during the Air Force’s 69th birthday ceremony held at the Lotts Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 22, 2016. Tyler, a Richmond native, was a sergeant who served in the Air Force from 1969 until 1971. He was a guest speaker for the ceremony.

Sept. 26, 2016

Air Force celebrates 69 years of flying high into the wild blue yonder

Richmond, VA — In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the major league baseball color barrier, the United Nations voted in favor of the creation of an Independent Jewish State of Israel, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union began, and President Harry S. Truman signed The National Security Act of 1947, creating both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of the Air Force.

DLA Director Lt. Gen. Andy Busch (center); Capt. Shane Perry (left), the youngest airmen attending; and Col. John Martin, the oldest airman attending as a guest, use a sword to cut the Air Force birthday cake at a Sept. 22 celebration.

Sept. 26, 2016

‘Always an airman’ at 69th Air Force birthday

Employees from across the McNamara Headquarters Complex celebrated the Air Force’s 69th birthday with stories and performances at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Sept. 22.

Army 1st Lt. Kyle Fortner, an environmental officer from Fort Lee, Virginia’s Kenner Army Health Clinic, installs a battery-operated mosquito collection system near the child development center July 19, 2016 on the Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, while Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond environmental staff members assist. Two traps collect mosquitos for Zika virus testing each week during the mosquito season.

Sept. 23, 2016

Prevention key to staying ahead of Zika virus

RICHMOND,VA — Defense Supply Center Richmond is one of four federal installations in Central Virginia collecting mosquitoes to test for the Zika virus. Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond’s Environmental Office is working with Kenner Army Health Clinic’s Preventive Medicine Clinic to prevent the spread (or reduce the risk) of the microcephaly causing disease in the commonwealth. Microcephaly is a medical condition in which the brain does not develop properly during pregnancy resulting in a smaller than normal head.

Storm clouds gather over Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, earlier this year, highlighting the need to be prepared for unexpected weather and events.

Sept. 22, 2016

Disasters are unpredictable; be prepared

Richmond, Va. — We all know we can’t predict when a natural disaster will occur. We also can’t predict when man-made events such as an active shooter will take place. However, we can plan and prepare to respond to these types of events

The Spotlight of the week shines on Kevin Savage, an information technology specialist for DLA Information Operations in Richmond, Virginia.

Sept. 21, 2016

Employee Spotlight: Kevin Savage

RICHMOND, VA — Employee Spotlight regularly features outstanding non-supervisory personnel from throughout the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and DLA Installation Support at Richmond teams.

In recognition of National Preparedness Month, September 2016, the Defense Logistics Agency Security and Emergency Services Office with Installation Support at Richmond, Virginia urge all employees to stay alert and vigilant in reporting suspicious activities and take action to prepare, now and throughout the year, for all emergencies including their own physical security.

Sept. 21, 2016

Do your part, report suspicious activity

Richmond, Virginia — DLA Richmond’s Security and Emergency Services Office asks DSCR employees to stay aware and if you observe suspicious activities, please contact local law enforcement immediately and provide details of what you have witnessed.

Defense Logistics Agency Aerospace Energy supported NASA’s first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid with a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Sept. 8.

Sept. 21, 2016

DLA Aerospace Energy supports NASA rocket launch

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Florida — Defense Logistics Agency Aerospace Energy supported NASA’s first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid with a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Sep. 8.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Allan Day, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation commander, works intently building a toy house from interconnecting blocks to demonstrate communication, common goals, and constraint resolution during an Aviation Process Excellence training exercise in the Lotts Conference Center Sept. 8-9 on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Sept. 21, 2016

DLA Aviation poised for process excellence

Richmond, Va. — Sixty key leaders and subject matter experts throughout Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and DLA Headquarters Strategic Plans and Policy attended the first-ever Senior Process Excellence Course at the Lotts Conference Center on Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 8 - 9.