DLA mission vital to warfighter support Published Oct. 8, 2010 By Defense Logistics Agency Warner Robins ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- As America's premier combat logistics support organization, the Defense Logistics Agency provides full-spectrum logistics support every day to Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, Airmen and civilians around the world. "DLA provides the entire 'life cycle' of logistics support to the Air Force," said Col. Tammy E. Farrow, the senior DLA representative here. "We buy, order, store, distribute, print and dispose of materiel needed to accomplish the Air Force mission." DLA manages nearly five million items through eight supply chains; fills more than 131,000 requisitions per day; completes nearly 10,000 contract actions per day; and processes more than 28 million receipts and issues, and does approximately $38 billion in business annually. "If a Soldier, Marine, Sailor or Airmen wears it or eats it, receives medical treatment with it, or uses it as fuel, it comes from DLA or a DLA source," Farrow said. "When military or civilian artisans need an item to build a new operating area or repair a weapons system, DLA is the foremost provider of those items as well." DLA employs more than 26,000 civilians, active duty and reserve personnel in 48 states and 28 countries. About 680 of those employees work here and are vital to the mission of Team Robins, Farrow said. The Robins DLA team is a group of five DLA organizations. Employees in these units perform numerous critical duties ranging from supply and materiel support, and acquisition, to storage and distribution, disposal, and printing. - DLA Aviation Customer Operations at Warner Robins provides supply and materiel support to the 402nd Maintenance Wing. It processes more than 300,000 annual requests. - DLA Aviation Strategic Acquisition at Warner Robins provides procurement management and supplier-relationship management services for all DoD components and other federal agencies. The organization awards about 450 new contracts per year valued at $425 million, while managing 850 active contracts worth $2.1 billion. The main focus of this organization is procurement of depot-level reparable parts in support of aircraft managed and overhauled at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center. - DLA Distribution at Warner Robins performs wholesale receiving, storage, and on-and off-base shipping and delivery functions for supplies and materiel to DOD and foreign military customers around the globe. The organization is responsible for 22 warehouses and storage lots, where they receive and ship more than one million items annually, including hazardous and classified material. The on-hand inventory is valued at about $11.8 million. - DLA Disposition Services at Warner Robins provides disposal, transfer and reutilization services for Robins, as well as other Air Force and Army installations in Georgia and Alabama. The organization processes more than 3,000 different line items annually which are collectively worth approximately $38.9 million. - DLA Document Services at Warner Robins provides services such as printing and high speed, high volume duplicating. The organization produces approximately 81 million printed pages, 50,000 CDs, and scans or converts 500,000 pages annually.