Defense Logistics Agency

The Defense Logistics Agency is a combat support agency in the United States Department of Defense. The agency is staffed by more than 26,000 civilian and military personnel throughout the world. Located in 48 states and 28 countries, DLA provides supplies to the military services and supports their acquisition of weapons, fuel, repair parts, and other materials. The agency also disposes of excess or unusable equipment through various programs.
Through other U.S. federal agencies, DLA also provides relief supplies to victims of natural disasters and humanitarian aid to refugees and internally displaced persons.

Organization

DLA is headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. It contains numerous offices responsible for supporting the overall agency.
The agency has several major subordinate activities operating in the field:

DLA Disposition Services, based in Battle Creek, Michigan, helps the military dispose of excess items. In addition to typical military items, such as vehicles and uniforms, Disposition Services also helps the military donate computers to primary schools, through the DoD Computers for Learning program.
DLA Distribution, headquartered in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, transports and stores items for DoD and other customers.
DLA Energy provides fuel for aircraft, ships, the U.S. space program, and for commercial space exploration. It has also provided helium for the U.S. Border Patrol surveillance aerostats.
DLA Troop Support, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, supplies uniforms, meals, medical supplies, construction equipment, and other items to deployed military members. It also supports the U.S. Department of Agriculture and helps provide fresh fruits and vegetables for some U.S. primary schools and eligible Indian reservations.
DLA Weapons Support, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, provides parts and maintenance for military ground vehicles and some ships.
DLA Weapons Support, headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, primarily supplies aircraft parts and expertise.

In addition to the major subordinate activities, six DLA staff elements oversee joint activities for the Defense Department. DLA Acquisition, for example, oversees the Defense National Stockpile Center through DLA Strategic Materials.
DLA also operates three full-time organizations embedded with three Combatant Commands of the U.S. military: DLA CENTCOM & SOCOM, DLA Europe & Africa, and DLA Indo-Pacific.

Detailed organization

DLA Disposition Services, in Battle Creek
* Disposal Region - Southeast, at Naval Air Station Jacksonville
* Disposal Region - Northeast, at Defense Supply Center, Richmond
* Disposal Region - Mid-America, at Joint Base San Antonio
* Disposal Region - West, at Naval Base San Diego
* Disposal Region - Pacific, at Naval Station Pearl Harbor
* Disposal Region - Central, at Camp Arifjan
* Disposal Region - Europe, in Kaiserslautern
DLA Distribution, in New Cumberland
* DLA Distribution Albany, at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany
* DLA Distribution Anniston, at Anniston Army Depot
* DLA Distribution Barstow, at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow
* DLA Distribution Cherry Point, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
* DLA Distribution Corpus Christi, at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
* DLA Distribution Hill, at Hill Air Force Base
* DLA Distribution Jacksonville, at Naval Air Station Jacksonville
* DLA Distribution Norfolk, at Naval Station Norfolk
* DLA Distribution Oklahoma City, at Tinker Air Force Base
* DLA Distribution Puget Sound, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
* DLA Distribution Red River, at Red River Army Depot
* DLA Distribution Richmond, at Defense Supply Center, Richmond
* DLA Distribution San Diego, at Naval Base San Diego
* DLA Distribution San Joaquin, at Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin
* DLA Distribution Susquehanna, in New Cumberland
* DLA Distribution Tobyhanna, at Tobyhanna Army Depot
* DLA Distribution Warner Robins, at Robins Air Force Base
* DLA Distribution Bahrain, at Naval Support Activity Bahrain
* DLA Distribution Europe, in Germersheim
* DLA Distribution Sigonella, at Naval Air Station Sigonella
** Detachment DLA Distribution Sigonella, at Camp Lemonnier
* DLA Distribution Pearl Harbor, at Naval Station Pearl Harbor
* DLA Distribution Yokosuka, at Fleet Activities Yokosuka
* DLA Distribution Korea, at Camp Carroll
* DLA Distribution Guam, in Sånta Rita-Sumai
DLA Energy, at Fort Belvoir
* DLA Energy Americas, in Houston
** DLA Energy Americas West, at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach
** DLA Energy Americas East, in Houston
** DLA Energy Americas North, in Anchorage
* DLA Energy Europe & Africa, in Kaiserslautern
* DLA Energy Middle East, at Naval Support Activity Bahrain
* DLA Energy Pacific, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
** DLA Energy East-Pacific, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
** DLA Energy South-West Pacific, in Sånta Rita-Sumai and Singapore
** DLA Energy Japan, at Yokota Air Base
** DLA Energy Korea, at Camp Walker
** DLA Energy Okinawa, at Camp Shields
DLA Troop Support, at Naval Support Activity Philadelphia
* DLA Troop Support Europe & Africa, in Kaiserslautern
* DLA Troop Support Indo-Pacific, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
DLA Weapons Support , at Defense Supply Center, Columbus in Columbus
* DLA Land Aberdeen, at Aberdeen Proving Ground
* DLA Land & Maritime Albany, at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany
* DLA Maritime Barstow, at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow
* DLA Maritime Mechanicsburg, at Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg
* DLA Maritime Norfolk, at Naval Station Norfolk
* DLA Maritime Pearl Harbor, at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
* DLA Maritime Portsmouth, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
* DLA Maritime Puget Sound, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
* DLA Land Warren, at Detroit Arsenal Army Base
* DLA Maritime Trident Refit Facility Bangor, at Naval Submarine Base Bangor
* Forward Presence Team, at Tobyhanna Army Depot
* Forward Presence Team, at Letterkenny Army Depot
* Forward Presence Team, at Red River Army Depot
* Forward Presence Team, at Anniston Army Depot
DLA Weapons Support , at Defense Supply Center, Richmond
* Industrial Support Activity Cherry Point, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
* Industrial Support Activity Jacksonville, at Naval Air Station Jacksonville
* Industrial Support Activity Ogden, at Hill Air Force Base
* Industrial Support Activity Oklahoma City, at Tinker Air Force Base
* Industrial Support Activity San Diego, at Naval Base San Diego
* Industrial Support Activity Warner Robins, at Robins Air Force Base
* Industrial Plant Equipment & Services Facility, at Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg
* Depot Level Repairable Procurement Huntsville, at Redstone Arsenal
* Depot Level Repairable Procurement Ogden, at Hill Air Force Base
* Depot Level Repairable Procurement Oklahoma City, at Tinker Air Force Base
* Depot Level Repairable Procurement Philadelphia, at Naval Support Activity Philadelphia
* Depot Level Repairable Procurement Warner Robins, at Robins Air Force Base
DLA CENTCOM & SOCOM, at MacDill Air Force Base
DLA Europe & Africa, in Kaiserslautern
DLA Indo-Pacific, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
* Indo-Pacific Logistics Operations Center, at Camp H. M. Smith
* Korea Logistics Operations Center, at Camp Henry
* DLA Indo-Pacific Liaison Officer, at Yokota Air Base
DLA Police

DLA has its own police department that provides police services physical security, emergency response, access control, alarm response and counter-terrorism protection.

Organization and training

DLA Police Officers are federal police officers who were trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centre or at the Army Civilian Police Academy and then further on-the-job training.
During the first year, officers have 11 weeks of intensive training in the Uniformed Police Training Program , or a 9-week course at the ACPA.
Then, after graduation from FLETC, officers will continue to develop skills through additional in-service training.

Uniform and equipment

DLA Police Officers wear a dark-blue typical city-style police uniform and are armed with a SIG Sauer M17 pistol along with a Benelli M4 patrol shotgun. They also have expandable batons, radios, spare magazines, and handcuffs.

History

Origins, 1941–1954

The seeds of the DLA were planted in World War II, when America's military needed to get vast amounts of munitions and supplies quickly. During the war, the military services began to coordinate more when it came to procurement, particularly of petroleum products, medical supplies, clothing, and other commodities. The main offices of the Army and Navy for each commodity were collocated.
After the war, the call grew louder for more complete coordination throughout the whole field of supply—including storage, distribution, transportation, and other aspects of supply. In 1947, there were seven supply systems in the Army, plus an Air Technical Service Command, and 18 systems in the Navy, including the quartermaster of the Marine Corps. Passage of the National Security Act of 1947 prompted new efforts to eliminate duplication and overlap among the services in the supply area and laid the foundation for the eventual creation of a single integrated supply agency. The act created the Munitions Board, which began to reorganize these major supply categories into joint procurement agencies. Meanwhile, in 1949, the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, a presidential commission headed by former President Herbert Hoover, recommended that the National Security Act be specifically amended so as to strengthen the authority of the Secretary of Defense so that he could integrate the organization and procedures of the various phases of supply in the military services.
The Munitions Board was not as successful as hoped in eliminating duplication among the services in the supply area. Congress became disenchanted with the board, and in the Defense Cataloging and Standardization Act of 1952, transferred the board's functions to a new Defense Supply Management Agency. The Eisenhower Reorganization Plan Number 6 abolished both this agency and the Munitions Board, replacing them with a single executive, an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Supply and Logistics. Meanwhile, the Korean War led to several investigations by Congress of military supply management, which threatened to impose a common supply service on the military services from the outside.
Integrated management began in 1958 with the formation of the Armed Forces Supply Support Center. For the first time, all the military services bought, stored, and issued items using a common nomenclature. The Defense Department and the services defined the material that would be managed on an integrated basis as "consumables", meaning supplies that are not repairable or are consumed in normal use. Consumable items, also called commodities were assigned to one military service to manage for all the services.