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November 17, 2025: DLA Demand Forecast to Industry Hosted by DLA Headquarters Event Location: Fort Belvoir, VA
March 2-4, 2026: Joint Advanced Planning Brief for Industry (JAPBI) Hosted by DLA Troop Support Event Location: Cherry Hill, NJ
April 21-23, 2026: 2026 DLA Energy Worldwide Hosted by DLA Energy Event Location: Crystal City, VA
May 19-20, 2026: DLA Disposition Services Industry Day Hosted by DLA Disposition Services Event Location: Battle Creek, MI
June 2-3, 2026: DLA Supply Chain Alliance Symposium & Exhibition Hosted by DLA Weapons Support Event Location: Columbus, OH
September 2026: DLA R&D Collider Day Hosted by DLA Information Operations - J68 R&D Event Location: Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, VA
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As the Nation’s Logistics Combat Support Agency, DLA is focused on transforming its logistics operations to meet the demands of modern warfare. We must think, act, and operate differently as we factor in the changing character of war and the need to generate current and future readiness. As DLA Director, it is my privilege to introduce the DLA Industry Partnership Plan – a strategy for a transformative era that reinforces our commitment to strengthening our partnership with industry in support of our Warfighters. At DLA, we believe in the power of collaboration. We recognize how critically important our partnership with industry is in driving innovation, fostering creativity, and delivering solutions, especially as we navigate logistics challenges in today's contested environments. Our goal is to expand industrial base partnerships to grow access to capability and capacity, while ensuring the defense industrial base can operate at the speed of war and adapt to rapidly changing requirements. For over 60 years, DLA's reliance on industry has been foundational to our role in joint logistics. Today is no different. We invite our industry partners to join us in this critical effort to maximize readiness for our Warfighters. Together, we will deliver exceptional logistics support that enables our Warfighters to succeed and win on the modern battlefield, both today and in the future. Let’s get going! MARK T. SIMERLY LTG, USA DLA Director
DLA’s strong relationship with our supplier community is critical to the agency’s ability to successfully carry out its mission as the Nation’s Logistics Combat Support Agency. As stated in the DLA Strategic Plan 2025 –2030 “DLA Transforms: A Call to Action,” the plan identifies four transformative imperatives to provide DLA with its focus: People, Precision, Posture, and Partnerships. These imperatives are grounded in our mission, vision, enduring DLA values, and operating principles. As DLA’s senior official responsible for industry engagement, I believe it is essential for DLA to articulate and communicate how we will approach engagement with suppliers (of both products and services) via a specific strategy. The four imperatives laid out in the following pages set forth the agency’s plans, priorities and expectations related to industry engagement from the DLA Enterprise perspective.
To further strengthen the partnership between DLA and our industry base, we must begin from a point of common understanding. With that in mind, I ask that all stakeholders – our suppliers as well as the DLA workforce and government partners – familiarize themselves with the plan. Throughout this plan, you will see several goals – improving communication, balancing priorities and risks, increasing efficiency – all of which are critical to our effort in helping American businesses compete in strategic industries, providing opportunity throughout the procurement process, promoting competition, and strengthening the resilience of America’s supply chains.
Whether you currently have a relationship with DLA or would like to begin one, I encourage you to contact our Industry Engagement Program Office who will help facilitate the execution of this plan across all four imperatives. Please join me as we work together to build and strengthen the strong partnerships that are necessary to support our Nation’s Warfighter. Director, DLA Acquisition
DLA manages the end-to-end global defense supply chain from raw materials to end user disposition for the military services, combatant commands, other federal, state and local agency partners and allied nations. Companies interested in working with DLA can learn more about how to do business with the agency: View the Working with DLA page for links to various resources and the Getting Started page for actual steps to take.