Aviation soars - wins DLA Director’s Strategic Goal Awards > Defense Logistics Agency

RICHMOND, Va. –

Several Defense Logistics Agency Aviation associates were recognized with DLA Director Navy Vice Adm. Michelle Skubic’s Strategic Goals Award for the 2nd Quarter of Fiscal 2023. The award recognizes the measurable contributions made by teams, or individuals, toward achieving the goals set forth within the lines of effort of the director’s Strategic Plan.

Recipients of the award have met specific goals, a strategy implemented for DLA Aviation to deliver seamless support to the warfighter in a changing world landscape.

Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Warner Robins Commander Air Force Col. Brian Mayer poses with members from DLA Aviation at Warner Robins Commodities Materiel Management and Planning and Support Branches. They were recognized as the winners of the DLA Director’s Strategic Goals Award winners for 2nd Quarter of Fiscal 2023 as part of the C-130 Hercules Propeller Barrel Cracking Recovery Materiel Support Team for their response to the grounding of over 100 Marine C-130 Hercules aircraft after a crack was found in a propeller barrel assembly during a routine maintenance inspection. (Photo courtesy of Jimmy Tran, Chief, DLA at Warner Robins Administrative Staff Division).

Six members from DLA Aviation at Warner Robins Commodities Materiel Management and Planning and Support Divisions were recognized as part of the C-130 Hercules Propeller Barrel Cracking Recovery Materiel Support Team for their response to the grounding of over 100 Marine C-130 Hercules aircraft after a crack was found in a propeller barrel assembly during a routine maintenance inspection.

Alicia Keppley (right), a customer account specialist lead within Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at Cherry Point’s Material Management Division’s Priority Cell is presented the Defense Logistics Agency Director’s Strategic Goals Award 2nd Quarter of Fiscal 2023 by Jason Tierson, supervisor of the DLA Aviation at Cherry Point’s Requisition Support Branch on Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of Emy Meadows, management analyst, DLA Aviation at Cherry Point)

The team coordinated the availability of the critical stock and managed the movement of the components between DLA Distribution and the maintenance shop.

Their efforts in securing the materials eliminated material delays and reduced the original completion date from June 2024 to October 2023, placing 57% of the C-130H fleet back in service by March 2023.

Alicia Keppley, a customer account specialist lead in DLA Aviation at Cherry Point’s Material Management Division’s Priority Cell was recognized for her extraordinary approach to research and analytic skills that made her the go-to-person to scrutinize and resolve material at Fleet Readiness Center East on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Keppley was tasked with spearheading a mission targeting the reduction of material delays overall at FRC East, a multi-layered undertaking that would ultimately reconcile 450 unique national stock numbers and unclog 4,800 material requisitions in the pipeline. She also engaged in a quarterly material obligation validation campaign, closing out more than $230k of requisitions that were no longer needed.