DLA Energy News

Jan. 21, 2025

Racing Toward Dreams: The Andrews Family’s Journey in Bahrain

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — David Andrews, a Logistics Management Specialist with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy Middle East, moved to Bahrain nearly a year ago accompanied by his family to take on his current role and discovered his son’s newfound passion for motorsports in the Bahrain International Karting Circuit.

Jan. 21, 2025

Surplus military vehicle firefighting conversion plans available

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A free repository of firefighting apparatus blueprints developed by Michigan’s Forest Fire Experiment Station includes instructions for the repurposing of former military equipment released by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Jan. 21, 2025

Industrial base and supply chain readiness among hot topics at AUSA panel

ARLINGTON, Va. — Military and industry leaders said warfighting is changing at lightning speed and the Defense Department needs to strengthen its resources to meet growing demands at the Association of the United States Army’s latest hot topics session in Arlington Jan. 15.

Jan. 21, 2025

EAP provides support to employees, household members facing personal and professional challenges

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency civilian federal employees looking to get counseling, coaching or senior care support for themselves or a member of their household in the new year can get help through the Employee Assistance Program.

Jan. 16, 2025

SEAC challenges DLA to think at scope, scale of war

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The key to winning wars against the great powers in the future will require people with the ability to think at the scope and scale of global conflict, the fifth Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Defense Logistics Agency leaders Jan. 13.

Jan. 16, 2025

New Supplier Pathway program links small businesses to DLA supply chains

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Small business owners interested in contracting with the agency can now use a new search function on DLA’s Small Business webpage to get contact information for the supply chain that manages the items or services they provide.

Jan. 15, 2025

DLA Installation Management teams clear snow during season’s first storm at 4 sites

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Snow-removal teams, many of them DLA volunteers, removed snow and ice from parking lots and walkways after the season’s first winter storm at four DLA locations in early January.

Jan. 14, 2025

DSCR’s MWR program earns 2024 program excellence award

RICHMOND, Va. — A team of Morale, Welfare and Recreation employees at DLA Installation Management Richmond earned recognition for doing what other people doubted they could do: open a cafeteria in 90 days.

Jan. 8, 2025

DLA Energy celebrates three new Hall of Fame members

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency Energy (DLA Energy) inducted three previous employees into the DLA Energy Hall of Fame, in a ceremony held at the McNamara Headquarters Complex on Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Jan. 8, 2025

In memoriam: President Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Mourning is remembering. As the nation reflects on the life of Jimmy Carter, it’s helpful to recall the many ways his administration changed the Defense Department, and what those changes meant for the Defense Logistics Agency.