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FORT BELVOIR, Va., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Service disabled, veteran-owned small business owners are encouraged to attend the Defense Logistics Agency Enterprise Supplier Conference and Exhibition, August 23 - 25, 2010, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. For those who cannot attend the entire conference, there will be a free town hall session for service disabled, veteran-owned small business owners. The town hall will be at the convention center on...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new initiative announced today by Defense Logistics Agency Director Navy Vice Adm. Alan Thompson is designed to create a single-agency environment to allow customers, suppliers and stakeholders to know the full scope of agency capabilities and build a greater sense of community among its 26,000-member global workforce. We Are DLA, the plan's name, is a unified, single-agency approach, uniting segments of the agency, regardless of...

President's Home State Deprived of Hundreds of Jobs due to DLA's Decision to Field Foreign Protective Equipment BELVIDERE, Ill., April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While Congress and President Obama push to reform the nation's financial system - there is another immediate issue to consider, as the employees of Infrastructure Defense Technologies (IDT) urge the President to reform the contracting practices of the U.S. Department of Defense, and to restore American jobs now. The pleas come...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Defense Logistics Agency employees continue working day and night to support humanitarian relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti. Air Force Col. Deirdre Mahon, a senior DLA logistics readiness officer, said teams from across the agency's supply chains are putting in long hours to provide supplies ranging from food to construction material for Haitians and for the military members involved in assisting them through Operation Unified...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 30,000 additional troops heading to Afghanistan later this month and next spring won't need a Lowe's or Home Depot upon arrival. Many of the housing, building and barricade items they'll need are already there or on the way, arranged for by the Defense Logistics Agency based at Fort Belvoir, Va. "Warfighters can expect that the Defense Logistics Agency is doing everything possible to take care of their needs. Right now, we have more...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Army Col. Mike Bird is about to move a mountain. And he won't be doing it alone. Bird, the commander of Defense Logistics Agency -- Central Command will have help from members of his own team, a DLA support team and participants from several agency primary-level field activities. But that doesn't make the task of helping the military services draw down a mountain of equipment and supplies accumulated during six years of operations in...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Iraqi army soldiers are learning from the best how to build an efficient national logistics system. A team of nine experts from various Defense Logistics Agency depots are mentoring Iraqis at the Taji National Supply Depot to receive, store and issue supplies to Iraqi units. The depot is scheduled for transition to full Iraqi control on Dec. 31. "Since June 2008, our focus has been to progressively get the Iraqis to take over authority...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Navy Cmdr. Trent Kalp described Afghanistan's bomb-laden dirt roads and rugged mountain ranges as the harshest logistics environment on earth. "We have a saying in the office that everything here is hard. We're landlocked, with no seaports and poor roads. There's also a knowledgeable enemy out there who knows logistics is key to the fight, so our food and fuel trucks are being targeted," said Kalp, commander of the Defense Logistics...

FORT BELVOIR, Va., July 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Defense Logistics Agency is ready to provide meals, cots, blankets, fuel, and other support to Americans in need during this year's hurricane season, which runs through Nov. 30. As the Department of Defense's combat logistics support agency, DLA is responsible for providing the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, other federal agencies, and joint and allied forces with a variety of logistics, acquisition and technical services....

Defense Logistics Agency and Denison to Host Session on Impact of Business Coaching and Leadership ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Denison Consulting, the world's leader in organizational leadership and culture assessment solutions, today announced that it will be co-presenting with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the largest government agency that provides logistics support to the U.S. Department of Defense, on business coaching and leadership, at the American Society for...