DLA Headquarters News

DLA Logistics Operations Deputy Director Mike Scott applauds the ‘great work’ being done by operational contract support personnel at DLA and the military services. Photo by Beth Reece

May 4, 2016

Operational contract support planners discuss progress, way ahead

Operational contract support planners from the Defense Logistics Agency, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff logistics directorate met April 26-28 in Springfield, Virginia, to share best practices for operational contract support and reinforce the need for a joint-service approach.

Ray Menendez (left), a DLA Disposition Services material examiner helps units at Fort Bliss, Texas, turn in excess property as part of "All Army Divestiture." Photo by Jeff Landenberger

May 3, 2016

DLA to help rid Army of excess equipment

Army officials are depending on the Defense Logistics Agency’s disposal and distribution experts to help remove more than 1.2 million pieces of excess equipment from unit inventories in the next two to three years.

John Koenigsberg addresses an audience gathered in the Building 20 auditorium during the Defense Supply Center Columbus Days of Remembrance event. Koenigsberg shared his personal story of survival and perseverance during the Holocaust, and stressed the importance of honoring those who lost their lives by keeping their memory alive.

May 2, 2016

Holocaust survivor shares story of resilience with DLA employees

COLUMBUS, Ohio — John Koenigsberg was just five years old when the Gestapo took away his grandfather and forced his family into hiding in occupied Holland. He would spend the next two years in the care of a Catholic family who took him in, while his father joined the Dutch resistance movement and his mother’s fate remained unknown to him.