DLA Headquarters News

April 29, 2025

Deployable opportunities get employees from their desks to the center of the action

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency employees have the opportunity to deploy worldwide to help the agency serve warfighters and meet its mission. The Rapid Deployment Team is now seeking volunteers for 2026.

April 23, 2025

PLUTO platform enables DLA Energy’s proactive approach to fuel management

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency Energy Business Process Support Directorate Supervisory Business Process Analyst Toka Trau-Massey navigates the Petroleum Logistics Utilization Tool and Optimization system. She emphasized that PLUTO marks a significant advancement in digital logistics for DLA Energy, enabling a proactive approach to fuel management

April 21, 2025

Joint Force logisticians discuss processes, future sustainment in contested logistics environment

TYSONS, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency is collaborating with the Joint Force sustainment community to establish partnerships and plans to better understand requirements and posture supplies in the contested logistics environment.

April 18, 2025

National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week honors DLA’s 911 dispatchers

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — After placing a call to 911, the first responder to answer before help arrives will be the calm voice of a public safety telecommunications professional or dispatcher.

April 18, 2025

Warstopper program changes could improve surge capabilities for critical supplies

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Expanding DLA's Warstopper Program to address critical material needs of the entire Defense Department would help boost industry’s ability to surge to meet unexpected demands and potentially save money, according to a new white paper.

April 15, 2025

Sexual assault awareness proclamation signing highlights workplace trust, safety

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Defense Logistics Agency leaders signed a Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month proclamation to emphasize protecting the workforce and maintaining trust in the integrity of the organization at the McNamara Headquarters Complex April 14.

April 11, 2025

Senior military leaders discuss challenges, future sustainment in INDO-PACOM

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — For the past 30 to 50 years, the United States has had freedom of maneuver to sustain the fleet anywhere it wants, but that’s not going to cut it in a contested environment, the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Installations and Logistics said at the Sea-Air-Space 2025 Expo at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center April 8.

April 7, 2025

DLA property managers earn industry-recognized certification

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Eight Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management employees earned their industry-recognized National Property Management Association certification at the DLA Headquarters March 28.

April 3, 2025

DLA Energy employee recognized for superior support to the Warfighter

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Todd McDowell, the DLA Energy Europe & Africa liaison officer with the United States Africa Command, distinguished himself through his exemplary service, leading to his selection as the USAFRICOM Inter-agency Partner of the Year.

April 3, 2025

Marine Corps Deputy Commandant to logisticians: Deter, set the theater for potential conflicts

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — This agency is a strategic and critical enabler in the pursuit of setting the theater to deter and posture military forces to prevail, the Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics told Defense Logistics Agency employees March 28.

April 1, 2025

Commentary: Civil defense leads DLA to catastrophe response, whole-of-government support

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — There is a common misconception that DLA became a whole-of-government provider after Hurricane Katrina. While DLA did systemize its catastrophe response following the 2005 destruction of New Orleans, it's been helping the nation react to weather events since the early 1970s.

March 28, 2025

DLA Energy Americas West Welcomed New Commander

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA Energy Americas West welcomed new Commander Navy Cmdr. Brandon Palmer and bid farewell to outgoing Commander Navy Capt. Anas Maazouzi during a change of command ceremony at the Naval Golf Course at Cypress, CA, March 21.

March 27, 2025

Blue Ocean Leadership Program debuts at the Defense Logistics Agency

FORT BELVOIR — In an era of accelerating technology and advanced artificial intelligence, basic human skills of working alone and together are more important than ever.

March 27, 2025

DLA and VHA sign 10-year, $3.6B partnership agreement

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Senior leaders from the Defense Logistics Agency and Veterans Health Administration signed an interagency agreement for healthcare support at DLA Headquarters March 12.

March 27, 2025

DLA Energy Quality Assurance Representative Shadows Director, Quality Technical Directorate at DLA Headquarters

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy’s Quality Assurance Representative (QAR) Jonathan Lucas had never considered DLA’s Shadow Program. And he especially hadn’t thought about spending time at “the headquarters”. He said there had always been a bit of an unspoken friendly rivalry between people who worked at the headquarters of DLA Energy and those who worked in the field such as at a regional headquarters.