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Warehouse personnel prepare boxes of N95 masks for shipment to the Coast Guard.

April 13, 2020

Agency locates 47,000 excess N95 masks for Coast Guard responders

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A respirator lot was retrieved by DLA Disposition Services personnel from an excess property contract sales warehouse where they had been sent prior to the coronavirus outbreak.

Deborah Jackson (right), a project manager for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency at Albany, Georgia, and her colleagues Robert Brantley (center), a material expeditor, and Jeremy Sexton, a project supervisor, begin to inventory, prepare, and palletize the 154,000 N95 masks to prepare them for shipment.

April 13, 2020

Teamwork provides protective masks quickly

ALBANY, Georgia — Quick efforts by elements of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Transportation Command moved 154,000 N95 masks from storage at Albany, Georgia, to make them available to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services or the military in their response to COVID-19.

The DLA Foundation is offering scholarships to students who have a close family connection to a current or past Defense Logistics Agency employee.

April 10, 2020

Scholarships available for students of Defense Logistics Agency employees

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The DLA Foundation is offering scholarships to students who have a close family connection to a current or past civilian or military Defense Logistics Agency employee.

A crew chief guides F-16 aircraft to a stop.

April 10, 2020

Aviation signs contract to certify engine part built through additive manufacturing process for airworthiness

RICHMOND, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, the Air Force and General Electric signed a contract March 17 to construct and evaluate an engine part for airworthiness produced using additive manufacturing processes. It is a first for DLA and the Air Force.

Tugboats assist USNS Comfort up the Hudson River as the hospital ship enters New York City. Federal, state, and local agencies provide a security escort for the patrol. Actions by logistics data experts at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services will make it easier for the crew to acquire parts for ship. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Hupp)

April 7, 2020

Logistics data experts help fight against COVID-19

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — It takes a lot of supplies and many types of equipment to fight a pandemic. Recently, logistics data experts at the Defense Logistics Agency’s Logistics Information Services used their skills to help customers find materials they need to battle the COVID-19 virus.

April 7, 2020

San Joaquin employees rising to the occasion despite global pandemic

TRACY, Calif. — The men and women of Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Joaquin, California, are a resilient workforce and understand the importance of providing world-class support to the warfighters and first responders during this coronavirus pandemic. The team is working in unison with U.S. Northern Command, in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who is leading the federal government response to COVID-19 efforts in the continental United States.

A former military ambulance is parked on a street corner food donation location.

April 7, 2020

School district uses excess Guard trucks to deliver meals

Battle Creek, Mich. — Pennsylvania’s West Mifflin Area School District is dishing out 800 meals daily with trucks acquired for free through DLA.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Quincy Moore, 8th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels laboratory NCO in charge, performs a monthly sediment and water test on a refueling unit using an inline sampler at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, April 3, 2020. These inline samplers are used to grab the sample to verify the fuel quality. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jessica Blair)

April 7, 2020

8th LRS fuels the mission

KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Kunsan Air Base website — The 8th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels management flight’s mission is to verify the quality of all fuel that comes in and out of the base to ensure the Wolf Pack is always mission ready.

An aircraft sits broken down in a industrial facility.

April 6, 2020

DLA taking the pulse of industry during COVID-19

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA is reaching out to take the pulse of industry and offering support as defense companies respond to coronavirus disruptions.

April 5, 2020

DLA Distribution’s Current Operations team ships Passover/Easter ceremonial items to overseas troops

For more than 20 years DLA has been involved with the yearly distribution of ashes, wine and palm leaves to as many as 50 foreign locations. Whether attending Easter mass in a tent in Afghanistan or Passover service on a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Bennage says chances are DLA was in some way involved in the process.