DLA Pacific News

Sept. 25, 2024

Collaboration leads to success at FCC annual meeting

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Federal Cataloging Committee set the next steps for a targeted go-live of the Cataloging Transformation Project in November 2025 at the recent annual meeting in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Sept. 24, 2024

Sustaining the Fight: DLA’s Role in Ulchi Freedom Shield 24

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Defense Logistics Agency Indo-Pacific took center stage during the most recent Ulchi Freedom Shield 2024 exercise, integrating the agency's major subordinate commands into one of the most complex and dynamic military exercises in the Indo-Pacific region.

Sept. 19, 2024

DLA, Space Force agree to new framework for logistics support

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Readiness-based support and a formal governance structure for aligning supply requirements are expected benefits of a new agreement between the Space Force and DLA.

Sept. 19, 2024

Suicide Prevention Month Commentary: Employee shares personal story

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In February 2002, after returning from two weeks of annual training in Kaiserslautern, Germany, while serving in the Army Reserve, attending community college full-time, and not working, I decided to enter the active-duty Army. Because I was a single mother, that required me to give up custody of my son.

Sept. 18, 2024

Vice director ties new DLA Strategic Plan to EEO efforts

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — EEO teams have a big role in helping DLA build a workforce that can achieve goals in the new 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, the agency’s deputy director said Sept. 11.

Sept. 17, 2024

Military leaders, industry partners brainstorm solutions to logistics challenges

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In a fast paced global environment, setting the pace in day to day military logistics operations around the globe is paramount to national security objectives. With so many challenges to negotiate, military leaders and industry partners recently gathered and collaborated on ways to ensure materiel readiness in a contested logistics environment.

Sept. 13, 2024

DLA vehicle managers reduce gas emissions, promote safety

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Rob Holt has served on Defense Logistics Agency Installation Management’s fleet management team for 12 years, with the last three as the fleet management program manager. He, the DLA vehicle manager and 14 subordinate fleet managers throughout the agency ensure 21,000 automotive and material handling items plus support equipment assets dispersed globally are mission ready.

Sept. 12, 2024

Enhanced government-industry connections a key focus at DLA’s Industry Collider Day

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Defense Logistics Agency is looking to solve many of its sustainment challenges by tapping into the innovation ecosystem that’s led primarily by commercial industry, the director said Sept. 10 during the fifth annual Industry Collider Day.

Sept. 12, 2024

History lessons help agency kick off National Preparedness Month celebration

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — History lessons from past natural disasters and terrorist activity helped employees of the Defense Logistics Agency kick off the National Preparedness Month observance at the McNamara Headquarters Complex Sept. 4.

Sept. 10, 2024

New DLA Strategic Plan frames goals for 2025-2030

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Overcoming contested logistics challenges as the nation faces adversaries in all domains is DLA's top priority as outlined in its new 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, "DLA Transforms: A Call to Action.”