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Updated May 2009
DLA Quick Facts:
- supplies almost every consumable item America's military services need to operate, from groceries to jet fuel
- supplies approximately 95% of the military services' repair parts; 100% of the services' subsistence, fuels, medical, clothing and textile, construction and barrier material
- 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 (not in Vermont and Iowa) and 28 countries
- would be #57 if a Fortune 500 company; just below Sunoco
- #3 in Top 50 distribution warehouses
- 25 distribution depots
New at DLA:
- streamlined supply depot and distribution system
- focused on moving DLA support far forward to the point of military customers' demand and managing suppliers, not just supplies
- no more warehouses of huge inventories
- physically closer to the customer and engaged face-to-face
- Enterprise Business Systems, updated and integrated supply chain and financial management processes and systems making DLA support to the warfighter faster and more efficient
Give the warfighters what they need:
- reduced inventories
- consistent high quality
- faster, reliable service
- lower costs
Foreign military sales:
- $2.07 billion in sales for fiscal 2008
- supports 126 allied nations
DLA by the numbers:
- Personnel (military and civilian) 23,000
- Items managed: 6.4 million - nine supply chains
- Requisitions per day: 114,000
- Contract actions per day: 11,200 (new awards and modifications to existing contracts)
- Number of weapons systems supported: 1603
- $26.6 billion in annual reutilization/disposals
- Fiscal 2003 sales and services: $25 billion
- Fiscal 2004 sales and services: $28 billion
- Fiscal 2005 sales and services: $31.8 billion
- Fiscal 2006 sales and services: $35.5 billion
- Fiscal 2007 sales and services: $35 billion
DLA field Activities and Other Support Service Organizations
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