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Facts and figures
about Oct. 13, 2004 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 New at DLA: · 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 Giving the war fighters what they need: · reduced inventories · better quality · faster, reliable service · lower costs DLA and Field Activity Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) – as of Oct.. 04 Logistics backbone of the war in Iraq: · processed 1.4 million requisitions with a total value of more than $2.6 billion · provided more than 138 million field meals · provided 1.8 million Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs) for displaced refugees. · supplied more than 1.2 billion gallons of fuel New in Iraq: · technology for modern inventory tracking (for example, common access cards, radio frequency identification tags, and memory buttons) to cut down on waste and over-supply · more advance planning (logisticians were part of earliest planning) · on-site battlefield coordination (sending supply experts right to the warfront) Post-War support: As action on the war-front wanes, the DLA mission does not. DLA continues to supply 100% of food, fuel, and medical, as well as most of the clothing, construction materials and spare parts for weapons systems for the forces who remain during the reconstruction of Iraq. DLA also supports redeployments – including conducting battlefield cleanup (such as removing equipment and debris and even hazardous materials). DLA Support to Operation Enduring Freedom – as of Oct.. 04 · processed more than 5.8 million requisitions with a total value of more than $5.6 billion · $21.2 million in humanitarian support (3.4 million pounds of wheat, 49,000 pounds of dates, 3.8 million Humanitarian Daily Rations, and 151,000 blankets) · more than 1.9 billion gallons of fuel DLA on Deployment: DLA liaison officers and Contingency Support Teams (DCSTs) act as DLA’s eyes and ears on the front lines, working alongside combat commanders and planners. To get the right support to the right place at the right time, DLA has: · more than 200 DLA personnel have deployed in support of OEF and OIF as individuals or as a member of a DCST · assigned full-time DLA liaison officers with the staffs at the combatant commands and at the Joint Staff DLA by the numbers: Items managed: 5.2 million Requisitions per day: 45,000 Contracts awarded per day: 8,200 FY02 sales and services: $21.5 billion FY03 sales and services: $25 billion Projected FY04 sales and services: $28.9 billion Comparable “Fortune 500” company (by budget): Northrop Grumman, # 55 Number of weapons systems supported: 1312 Value of inventory: $83.2 billion (Defense Distribution Center) Number of field activities: Seven (listed below) Number of employees: 22,000+ (down from 65,000 in 1992) Number of military: 488 active (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine), 618 reservists DLA Field Activities · Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) – Columbus, Oh. www.dscc.dla.mil - Maritime and land weapons systems support · Defense Supply Center Richmond (DSCR) – Richmond, Va. www.dscr.dla.mil - Aviation support · Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP) – Philadelphia, Pa. www.dscp.dla.mil - Food, clothing, medical, general and industrial supplies · Defense Distribution Center (DDC) - New Cumberland, Pa. www.ddc.dla.mil - Worldwide network of 25 distribution depots, with four additional sites set to open this year. · Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) - Fort Belvoir, Va. www.desc.dla.mil - Fuels, gas, electrical power · Defense National Stockpile Center (DNSC) - Fort Belvoir, Va. https://www.dnsc.dla.mil/default.asp - Stockpiles strategic raw materials · Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) –Battle Creek, Mi. www.drms.dla.mil - Property disposal of various items, scrapping of ships and hazardous materials Additionally, we provide these other services in support of America’s fighting forces · Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) - Battle Creek, Mi. www.dlis.dla.mil - Manages and distributes logistics information · Document Automation and Production Service (DAPS) - Mechanicsburg, Pa. www.daps.dla.mil - Printing services, digital conversion, document storage · DLA Europe (Wiesbaden, Germany) www.dla.mil/europe - Focal point for 93 countries covering 20 million square miles · DLA Pacific (Taegu, Korea) www.pacific.dla.mil - Focal point for 105 million square miles that supports Hawaii, Korea and Japan · DLA Central (Tampa, Fla.) - Established Oct. 1, provides the field activities with one point of contact for all supply requisitions in the Middle East.
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