DLA Europe And Africa News

Category: Disposition Services

A Boeing 747 and a Humvee are parked in a hangar in the desert.

July 18, 2023

Desert aerospace education boosted by DLA used property stocks

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The world’s biggest privately funded air and space museum has long relied on DLA’s military surplus and excess property pipeline to help execute its education mission.

multiple images of Natalie including friends painting, beekeeping uniform, cat and dog and couple.

July 17, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Natalie Coulson

Battle Creek, Mich — The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

A Navy officer hands an Army officer a flag.

July 13, 2023

Sullivan takes the reins as new DLA Europe & Africa commander

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Army Col. Faith Chamberlain handed control of the Defense Logistics Agency Europe & Africa to Army Col. Adrian Sullivan during a change of command ceremony July 11 at the Armstrong Club in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

July 12, 2023

WMS rollout reaches 6-month milestone

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Disposition Services is transitioning to the Warehouse Management System and over the last six months has moved nine different sites to the new system and adapted training methods during the process.

July 11, 2023

Commentary: Director visits form, enhance DLA Europe & Africa

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Senior leader authority is most potent when exercised face-to-face. Put simply, things get done when the boss visits. It’s therefore not surprising the organizational history of Defense Logistics Agency Europe, now DLA Europe & Africa, can be told through DLA directors’ trips to the continent.

A large warehouse with items neatly stacked in lines so people and equipment can move between the piles of property. the space is well lit, organized and clean.

July 7, 2023

Excess equipment bolsters operational readiness

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md — The Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services is known for handling excess military property and is a trusted source of supply for the United States military when it comes to acquiring used equipment.

Professional portrait of female with flag in the background

July 3, 2023

PaCE Spotlight: Elizabeth Norvey

Battle Creek, Mich. — Elizabeth Norvey is a current member of Pathways to Career Excellence Program, group 42 beginning in 2021. For her second year in the PaCE Program, she was placed at the DLA Disposition Services site in Columbus, Ohio.

people listen to briefing in conference room

June 30, 2023

Acquisition powerhouses unite: DLA's contracting summit fuels collaboration and growth

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Over the course of a two-day summit, DLA acquisitions personnel assessed regulations, developed effective plans of action for process improvements and further advanced the agency’s capabilities in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Lt. Col. Eugene Chu, the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Corps Logistics Support Element senior representative, briefs representatives from the U.S. Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency outside the V Corps headquarters in Poznan, Poland, June 21. The CLSE serves as a strategic liaison among the U.S. Army Materiel Command enterprise, Department of Defense agencies, the 405th AFSB and V Corps. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)

June 29, 2023

405th AFSB’s CLSE helps deliver strategic level sustainment to V Corps, forces in Europe

POZNAN, Poland — With deployed forces in support of Europe during Russia’s unprovoked and unjust war in Ukraine, the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s Corps Logistics Support Element is busy experimenting with new ways of delivering strategic level sustainment to America’s V Corps.

June 26, 2023

Leadership Spotlight: Nicholas (Nick) Janik

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — Nick has served the country for 21 years, is a proud father and husband, and enjoys woodworking.