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# DLA Director touts resiliency, performance-based logistics at town hall

By John Bell

                Fort Belvoir, Virginia  –              
Defense Logistics Agency Director Air Force Lt. Gen. AndyBusch stressed the importance of resiliency and cited employees’ achievementstoward goals outlined in the agency’s 2015-2022Strategic Plan in a Town Hall at the McNamara Headquarters Complex Nov. 2.

“There are five steps forward every day; there might be onestep back, but we’re making progress, and we are getting great feedback,” Buschsaid.

The director highlighted the agency’s effort to improvesupport to the nuclear enterprise. Progress has already been made with fleetballistic-missile submarines, nuclear reactors and Trident submarines, but morefocus is needed on systems such as the F15-E Strike Eagle and F-16 FightingFalcon, he said.

The agency has also made significant progress inperformance-based logistics, a key part of BetterBuying Power 3.0. However, Busch said he would like to see PBLs expandbeyond depot maintenance and supply-chain parameters to include operationaloutcomes. That effort would require stronger partnerships with the service’sprogram managers.

Busch then spoke about workforce resiliency, saying it’simportant that DLA be a positive workplace, with a culture that treatsemployees as valued team members and promotes work-life balance. Results ofprevious culture surveys revealed the need for improvements in morale acrossthe DLA workforce, although the agency offers programs and privileges intendedto improve the work environment and help employees be successful. 

“This agency has made a significant investment in programsthat can help you become resilient. I do become concerned when I see some ofthe great programs that are a little under-subscribed,” he said, encouragingemployees to make good use of telework and the fitness program.

Busch also praised employees for making the agencyaudit-ready two years earlier than required by the Defense Department. 

“I congratulate all of you who were involved in that,” hesaid. 

Contributions and sacrifices of DLA employees were alsohighlighted. Busch praised the work of DLA’s approximately 600 militaryreservists, including those who helped work through a backlog of hazardousmaterials needing disposal and others who are assisting with expeditionarytraining.

The director also heralded the contributions of DLA civilianemployees, noting that they make up the bulk of the agency’s workforce. Hesingled out two employees who lost their lives in service to duty: Steve Byuswas a DLA Land and Maritime employee serving a second deployment in Afghanistanwhen he was killed on duty in September 2014. He has since been inducted intothe DLA Hall of Fame, and the DLA Land and Maritime Community Center inColumbus, Ohio, will be named after Byus.

Krissie Davis was also on her second deployment when she waskilled by indirect fire in Afghanistan in June 2015. Busch recounted meetingwith her family in Dover, Delaware. 

“They talked about how much she enjoyed doing what she didand what it was doing for the warfighters. It was reassuring for me as thedirector, and it should be reassuring for all of you to hear as well,” he said.

Robert DeLong of DLA Disposition Services was in the vehiclewith Davis but survived. He refused an offer to end his deployment to returnhome early. 

“I see across the agency the same commitment Robert DeLongshows,” the director added.

Busch concluded the town hall by answering questions on topicsranging from E-Procurement outages to DLA’s eventual migration to cloud-basedcomputing. 

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