NEWS RELEASE Defense Logistics Agency Public Affairs Division, Va

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is DOD’s largest combat support agency, providing worldwide logistics support in both peacetime and wartime to the military services as well as several civilian agencies and foreign countries. DLA headquarters is located at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia.

If America’s forces eat it, wear it, maintain equipment with it, or burn it as fuel…DLA probably provides it.

DLA Quick Facts:

• supplies almost every consumable item America’s military services need to operate, from groceries to jet fuel

• helps dispose of materiel and equipment that is no longer needed

• has supported every major war and contingency operation of the past four decades, from the Vietnam War to Operation Iraqi Freedom

• represented in 48 states and 28 countries

• supports 124 nations with foreign sales that total more than $719 million

• streamlined supply depot and distribution system

• has moved from managing supplies to managing suppliers (wholesale to retail)

• no more warehouses of huge inventories

• more directly engaged, physically closer to the customer

• increased use of contractors, even in the battlefield

• the Business Systems Modernization initiative that will replace dozens of legacy systems, some of which were designed in the 1960s and built in the 1970s, with a commercial off-the-shelf-based portfolio of software and current state-of-the-art hardware