DLA Headquarters News

Group Photo from the Federal Cataloging Committee annual meeting

Sept. 25, 2024

Collaboration leads to success at FCC annual meeting

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Federal Cataloging Committee set the next steps for a targeted go-live of the Cataloging Transformation Project in November 2025 at the recent annual meeting in Battle Creek, Michigan.

A man and a woman in camo uniforms stand at a table signing documents

Sept. 19, 2024

DLA, Space Force agree to new framework for logistics support

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Readiness-based support and a formal governance structure for aligning supply requirements are expected benefits of a new agreement between the Space Force and DLA.

Alexandria Brimage-Gray, a writer for DLA Public Affairs

Sept. 19, 2024

Suicide Prevention Month Commentary: Employee shares personal story

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In February 2002, after returning from two weeks of annual training in Kaiserslautern, Germany, while serving in the Army Reserve, attending community college full-time, and not working, I decided to enter the active-duty Army. Because I was a single mother, that required me to give up custody of my son.

Sept. 18, 2024

Vice director ties new DLA Strategic Plan to EEO efforts

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — EEO teams have a big role in helping DLA build a workforce that can achieve goals in the new 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, the agency’s deputy director said Sept. 11.

A group of people gathered for a photo at the Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters building in Fort Belvoir, Virginia during a logistics leadership solutions based symposium

Sept. 17, 2024

Military leaders, industry partners brainstorm solutions to logistics challenges

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In a fast paced global environment, setting the pace in day to day military logistics operations around the globe is paramount to national security objectives. With so many challenges to negotiate, military leaders and industry partners recently gathered and collaborated on ways to ensure materiel readiness in a contested logistics environment.

A low-speed electric vehicle is staged at Defense Logistics Agency Aviation in Richmond, Virginia

Sept. 13, 2024

DLA vehicle managers reduce gas emissions, promote safety

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Rob Holt has served on Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management’s fleet management team for 12 years, with the last three as the fleet management program manager. He, the DLA vehicle manager and 14 subordinate fleet managers throughout the agency ensure 21,000 automotive and material handling items plus support equipment assets dispersed globally are mission ready.

Sept. 12, 2024

Enhanced government-industry connections a key focus at DLA’s Industry Collider Day

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency is looking to solve many of its sustainment challenges by tapping into the innovation ecosystem that’s led primarily by commercial industry, the director said Sept. 10 during the fifth annual Industry Collider Day.

Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management Emergency Manager Carlton Dickens, left, and DLA Emergency Management Program Manager James Johnston, right, pose for a photo with Michael Chang, center, the director of operations for TrapWire Inc., during the National Preparedness Month observance

Sept. 12, 2024

History lessons help agency kick off National Preparedness Month celebration

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — History lessons from past natural disasters and terrorist activity helped employees of the Defense Logistics Agency kick off the National Preparedness Month observance at the McNamara Headquarters Complex Sept. 4.

Sept. 10, 2024

New DLA Strategic Plan frames goals for 2025-2030

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Overcoming contested logistics challenges as the nation faces adversaries in all domains is DLA's top priority as outlined in its new 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, "DLA Transforms: A Call to Action.”

A black man in camo uniform shakes hands with another black man holding a certificate.

Sept. 9, 2024

DLA support rep earns award for helping NAVCENT overcome contested logistics challenges

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A DLA customer support representative in Bahrain is part of a group receiving the Adm. Stan Arthur Award for logistics and sustainment support.

National Insider Threat Awareness Month graphic with this years theme prominently displayed: Deter. Detect. Mitigate.

Sept. 3, 2024

DLA employees learn ways to eliminate insider threat

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Insider Threat Program is vital in assisting in the detection of potential risk Indicators and concerning behaviors, discouraging potential insider threats with security countermeasures, and mitigating risks with early detection and intervention to remove individuals form the critical pathway. Every year throughout the month of September, agencies like the Defence Logistics Agency observe and educate its employees on the unfortunate realities of insider threat. This years theme to National Insider Threat Awareness (NITAM) is exactly what the DLA Insider Threat Team is here to do: Detect, Deter, and Mitigate.

Sept. 3, 2024

Suicide Prevention Month: Support is within reach

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — It's OK to seek help for mental health, says Cynthia Clark, the on-site EAP consultant at DLA Headquarters.

A group of men and women stand listening to a speaker in a warehouse

Aug. 29, 2024

Warner Robins logistics complex rehearses WMS implementation

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Teammates from across DLA, the Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Sustainment Center met at Warner Robins Air Force Base to review processes and conduct a rehearsal of concept drill in advance of deploying WMS.

Gorce Protection condition levels and their respective meanings.

Aug. 19, 2024

FPCON 101: Force protection conditions refresher

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Whether approaching a gate entrance on a military installation or entering a government owned facility, you have probably noticed the installation’s Force Protection Condition level posted prominently.

A woman ascends a set of stairs with a DLA emblem in the background and the text "Career Growth at DLA: Same skills, new role"

Aug. 15, 2024

Same skills, new role: How one employee found career growth at DLA

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Many people have asked me why I made what seems like a dramatic career change from communications and media to project management. The two fields appear vastly different at first glance. However, I’m sharing my story to highlight that skills in one field can yield success in another.