DLA Energy News

Sept. 18, 2023

Agency leaders address Culture and Climate Survey participation in new video

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The current Culture and Climate Survey marks a pivotal moment for the organization, DLA Vice Director Brad Bunn says in a new video encouraging employees to share their opinions on the workplace.

Sept. 18, 2023

DLA employee in Guam shares family’s 12-hour typhoon experience

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A DLA physical security specialist describes how her family endured Typhoon Mawar and made it through 18 days without power or water.

Sept. 14, 2023

DLA employee named Federal Property Manager of the Year

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Paul Ortiz, chief of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Property and Real Estate Division, was named the Federal Property Manager of the Year by the National Property Managers Association.

Sept. 13, 2023

Innovation will help shape future of military logistics

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Innovation in logistics is key to the nation’s ability to deter aggression as it meets new and growing threats, a DOD leader said at Industry Collider Day on the anniversary of 9/11.

Sept. 13, 2023

Partnerships, sustainment in Indo-Pacific theater focus of annual DLA/Air Force Day

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Two weeks shy of the Air Force’s 76th birthday, Defense Logistics Agency Director Vice Adm. Michelle Skubic welcomed senior logistics leaders from across the service and DLA to the annual Air Force/DLA Day.

Sept. 12, 2023

Industry Collider Day sparks collaboration on supply chain challenges

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Today’s global security environment highlights the need for logistics solutions that allow the world’s mightiest military to maintain its upper edge in lethality, DLA's director said Sept. 11 at the fourth annual Industry Collider Day.

Sept. 11, 2023

Remembering 9/11: DLA Distribution operations director recalls morning at Pentagon

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, was sunny and clear at the nation’s capital. Paul Abel, then an Army lieutenant colonel working in Army logistics at the Pentagon, put the top down on his convertible for the short commute to work. He even called his father, who worked in the same building in the 1960s, to brag that he would enjoy the late summer day through a window in his recently relocated office.

Sept. 7, 2023

‘You matter’ DLA Energy leader says at Air Force birthday event

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Air Force isn’t just a fleet of advanced aircraft or a set of strategic plans on paper. It’s the collective heartbeat of those willing to defend the nation, DLA Energy’s director of customer operations said at a recent event.

Sept. 6, 2023

DLA Energy continues to expand utilities support to U.S. Navy

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA Energy Utility Services worked with Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command to award its second utility services contract on Aug. 15 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, for the water and wastewater utility systems. 

ARLINGTON, Va. Sept. 5, 2023

Micro-reactor pilot program reaches major milestone

The Department of the Air Force, in partnership with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy, reached a critical milestone Aug. 31, in piloting advanced nuclear energy technology with the issuance of the Notice of Intent to Award a contract to Oklo Inc.