DLA Headquarters News

Oct. 14, 2021

DLA Energy Commander visits Texas aerostat site

EL INDIO, Texas — Two miles east of the Rio Grande, high above the desolate South Texas chaparral land, tethered surveillance balloons, filled with helium from DLA Energy Aerospace keep watch. Observing the large, low-altitude aircraft, a DLA Energy team visited the Tethered Aerostat Radar System site at El Indio, Texas, Sept. 29. 

Oct. 14, 2021

DLA exceeds small business goal for ninth consecutive year, expands access in underutilized business zones

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA small business officials have expanded their reach in a challenging subcategory: historically underutilized business zones. This is the first time in a decade that DLA has exceeded its 3% goal for awarding contracts in the HUBZone program.

Oct. 13, 2021

Defense Department disability awards ceremony honors DLA, individual achievements

Arlington, Va. — During the Oct. 7 Secretary of Defense Disability Awards Ceremony, DLA earned best DOD mid-sized component for the fifth consecutive year. The agency was also recognized for ensuring accessible information and communication technology in the workplace, and DLA Aviation general supply specialist Aaron Wessman was honored as an outstanding DOD employee with a disability.

Oct. 12, 2021

Coast Guard Training Center gets energy savings contract

PETALUMA, Calif. — A DLA Energy Savings Performance Contract will add energy resiliency and reduce reliance on the power grid for a northern California U.S. Coast Guard Training Center. TRACEN Petaluma will implement six energy conservation measures across the 837-acre campus to reduce its electric load and increase the on-base distribution system reliability.

Oct. 12, 2021

DLA prepares for future needs with Digital-Business Transformation

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency is leveraging emerging technologies in cloud-based computing, customer service and supply chain modernization with its Digital-Business Transformation, or D-BX.

Oct. 8, 2021

Celebrating 60 years: DLA traces roots to DOD creation

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — This is the first in a “Celebrating 60 years” series of seven articles highlighting DLA’s support to America’s military since the agency was created Oct. 1, 1961.

Oct. 7, 2021

DLA, industry leaders discuss demand forecasts for upcoming year

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA leaders and representatives from 11 industry associations discussed demand forecasts for DOD customers and whole-of-government organizations during an Industry Association webinar Oct. 6. DLA has held events with industry partners since 2018.

Oct. 6, 2021

FedMall users must have active status by Oct. 12 or lose account access

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Military and federal agency customers who use FedMall must log in to their accounts to maintain an active status before Oct. 12 to ensure continued access when the e-commerce site moves to a new platform in November.

Oct. 4, 2021

DLA Support Team Middle East welcomes new commander

Camp Arifjan, Kuwait — During a Sept. 29 change of command ceremony, Army Lt. Col. Daniel Howser took on the role of DLA Support Team Middle East commander from Air Force Lt. Col. Brian Wilken, who served as the newly renamed team’s first commander in April.

Oct. 4, 2021

DLA Finance absorbs Audit Task Force’s responsibility for audit readiness

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The work of a task force created in October 2018 to synchronize audit-readiness efforts and drive the agency toward achieving a clean audit opinion on DLA’s financial statements realigned Sept. 30 under Defense Logistics Agency Finance. 

Oct. 1, 2021

New video details love of logistics by DLA’s first director

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Rhode Island man responsible for the Defense Logistics Agency’s initial success is the subject of a new seven-minute video highlighting the agency’s 60th anniversary. 

Sept. 30, 2021

DLA petroleum lab partners with high school in Germany

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Two Ramstein High School students are getting hands-on learning at the DLA Energy Europe & Africa petroleum lab in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The six-month Department of Defense Education Activity Europe Career Practicum Student Internship Program matches a student with a professional experience based on their career interest.

Sept. 29, 2021

DLA program analyst reflects on agency’s history, epic move

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Senior Program Analyst Ken McLain remembers well the part of DLA's history that saw the 1995 transfer of agency employees from Cameron Station in Alexandria, Virginia, to the new McNamara Headquarters Complex at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. In fact, he was the relocation manager for the move.

Sept. 28, 2021

DLA awards 7 contracts to small businesses at Industry Collider Day

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Seven small businesses were awarded contracts for innovative solutions to warfighter and national security challenges through the Defense Logistics Agency’s 2021 Small Business Innovation Research Program during Industry Collider Day Sept. 8.

Sept. 27, 2021

DLA Energy supports Hurricane Ida relief efforts

Task Force Americas is a team of DLA Energy employees who respond to and support a variety of emergency situations under the Defense Support of Civil Authorities mission. Their latest mission was providing fuel support to the FEMA following Hurricane Ida’s landfall on the Gulf Coast.