FORT BELVOIR, Va. –
The Defense Logistics Agency Foundation is offering scholarships to students who have a close family connection to a current or past civilian or military DLA employee.
The scholarship application window opened Feb. 23 and will close April 6 at 11:59 p.m. Award announcements will take place in June.
A child, stepchild, grandchild, niece or nephew of a current or former DLA military or civilian government employee is considered to be a close family connection.
The foundation will award up to 30 scholarships of $2,000 each. Merit and financial need are the main criteria for judging applications. One of these scholarships is named in memory of Terry Phillips, which will be awarded to the top scholarship applicant with a family member who was, or is, assigned to either DLA Distribution at Oklahoma City or DLA Weapons Support at Oklahoma City.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens who are high school seniors or college students who will attend an undergraduate school, a trade school or a technical school as a full-time student in academic year 2026-2027 with 12 semester hours. Appointees to military service academies are not eligible.
Students must have at least a minimum 3.0 grade point average. The requirement for submission of either SAT or ACT scores by high school seniors is no longer necessary. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid submission summary will be used to determine financial need. The maximum Student Aid Index in the FAFSA submission summary that will be considered is 15,000.
In addition to scholarships from the foundation’s general fund, there is one $2,000 scholarship that will be awarded through a donor-funded scholarship in honor of Frank Lotts to a student who is pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.
The application is accessible via the DLA Foundation Award Spring website. Applicants can get detailed guidance about the application in the Scholarship Application Guide.
The DLA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and a non-federal entity not affiliated with the Department of War.
Editor’s note: This article and its links are not intended as an endorsement of the DLA Foundation.