DLA Aviation

Daniele Kurze is personally touched when she sees family-owned small businesses of 60-plus years shut their doors amid challenges like financial uncertainty and workforce retention. As the Defense Logistics Agency’s new executive director of Small Business Programs, she’ll now address those and other issues affecting small businesses.

Nestled within the bays of a modest facility at Defense Supply Center Richmond lies an integral component in the advancement of the Defense Department’s industrial metalworking capabilities – an organization dedicated to revolutionizing defense manufacturing through the procurement of new equipment and refurbishment of old equipment.

A major subordinate command of the Defense Logistics Agency, we are the aviation demand and supply chain manager for DLA and much of the Defense Department. Our more than 4,300 civilian and military personnel work in 22 locations across the U.S. and one location overseas. DLA Aviation supports more than 2,341 weapon systems as the military’s integrated materiel manager for more than 1.8 million national stock number items, industrial retail supply and depot-level reparable acquisitions.