DLA News Archive

Nov. 1, 2025

Guest Commentary: From red tape to readiness - sharpening the acquisition edge

Redstone Arsenal — It's an honor to share a few thoughts with this community, a vital part of the Army’s and the nation's logistics enterprise. As the Army’s principal buying agent, the Army Contracting Command is focused on a singular, urgent mission: providing our warfighters with premier contracting support at the speed of war. To do this, we must relentlessly pursue efficiency, responsiveness and effectiveness, using every tool at our disposal.

Nov. 1, 2025

Maintaining military first impressions: Third-party logistics team essential to military clothing supply chain

PHILADELPHIA — Behind every recruit’s first set of uniforms is a team and a process that ensures more than a billion dollars’ worth of inventory is handled properly. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support’s Clothing and Textiles supply chain works with five third-party logistics firms, also known as 3PLs, that provide outsourced logistics services including warehousing, transportation, inventory management, and procurement.

Nov. 1, 2025

Personalities and the past: How history makes the Army, Marine Corps, Navy unique

Officers joining George Washington’s army outside Boston in the summer of 1775 didn’t swear allegiance to the United States. They couldn’t: America didn’t exist. The U.S. Marine Corps, Navy and Army all celebrated their 250th anniversary in 2025, making them a year older than the nation they support.

Nov. 1, 2025

I am DLA: Matt Borsinger

A spotlight on Matt Borsinger, a Small Business Innovative Programs program manager with DLA Research and Development at the Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia.

Nov. 1, 2025

Just Enough Logistics: Shifting the Logistics Paradigm

Today’s battlespace is more complex, unpredictable, and technologically advanced than ever before. The modern Warfighter must operate in environments where logistics is under threat – from cyber vulnerabilities, adversarial supply chain manipulation, and constrained transportation networks. 

Nov. 1, 2025

Modernization of the Distribution Network

Logistics is no longer a back-end function; it is a front-line enabler of military success. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has underscored the critical role of logistics in modern warfare, where the ability to move, store, and deliver material at speed will be a decisive factor in conflict outcomes.

Nov. 1, 2025

DLA Disposition Services: Reutilization as a source of supply

For decades, military forces have relied on a systematic approach to targeting and engaging enemy forces, known as the "Kill Chain," or F2T2EA sequence: Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, and Assess. The ultimate goal of warfare is to create significant combat effects, which can be either kinetic, such as destroying an enemy missile launcher with a precision-guided bomb, or non-kinetic, like disrupting an adversary's radar systems through electronic jamming.

Nov. 1, 2025

Incorporating Tactical Energy Storage into War Reserves: DLA’s Vital Role in Sustaining Strategic Assets

War Reserve Materiel (WRM) is critical to minimizing supply chain disruptions inherent in contested logistics. For over sixty years, forward-deployed, prepositioned war reserve materiel (PWRM) has enabled rapid response to contingencies and strengthened deterrence against emerging threats.

Nov. 1, 2025

Finding advantage in the economic attributes of supply chain management

The tension between culmination and operational reach is inherent in all operations and at every echelon. Germany started WWII with relatively minuscule industrial capacity, limited access to fossil fuels and light/heavy metals, and a delusional sense of invincibility abetted by their early tactical successes by way of Blitzkrieg. All of this was complemented by a self-assured will to fight predicated on initial weapons design prowess and an ideological sense of superiority. Even still, the strategic intent was to annihilate opposition expeditiously via fast-acting maneuver in order to avoid attritional warfare.

Nov. 1, 2025

Defense Material Disposition in a Contested Logistics Environment

The emerging joint operating environment (JOE) is characterized by an erosion of U.S. military competitive advantages as adversaries obtain technologically advanced capabilities at a faster pace than ever before to deny, disrupt, and degrade our nation’s ability to protect itself and advance national interests. This is resulting in unique and complex challenges for military forces engaging in a wide range of operational activities across the competition continuum.