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                        - DLA Disposition Services
                        - What Disposition Offers                            - Property Turn-In
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### **Contact Public Affairs**

The headquarters for DLA Disposition Services is located in the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Mich. Additional sites are located around the world.

**News Media Contacts:**

DLA Disposition Services (Public Affairs)Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center74 Washington AveBattle Creek, MI 49037

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(269) 961-7015

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DLADispo@DLA.MIL

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Normal business hours are Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Eastern time, excluding federal holidays. If you can't reach us during normal business hours, send us an e-mail or leave a recorded message. The headquarters of the Defense Logistics Agency, or DLA, is located at Fort Belvoir, Va.  The public affairs office there can be reached at 571-767-6200.

#### DLA Disposition Services Historical Page

Learn more about DLA Disposition Services historic accomplishments and milestones over the past fifty years

# About DLA Disposition Services

## Mission

**DLA Mission:  We are America’s Combat Logistics Support Agency.  We provide effective and efficient worldwide support to warfighters and our other customers.**

**Part of the Defense Logistics Agency, DLA Disposition Services **disposes of excess property received from the military services. The inventory changes daily and includes thousands of items: from air conditioners to vehicles, clothing to computers, and much more.   That property is first offered for reutilization within the Department of Defense (DoD), transfer to other federal agencies, or donation to state and local governments and other qualified organizations.  Reutilization means big savings. In the past four years more than $2.2 billion worth of property was reused each year. Every dollar's worth of property reutilized is a tax dollar saved. DLA Disposition Services also supports disaster relief at home, and humanitarian assistance and foreign military sales programs.

**Selling DoD surplus property.**DLA Disposition Services manages the DoD surplus property sales program. Excess property that is not reutilized, transferred or donated may be sold to the public.  The property, no longer needed by the government, is only sold if it is appropriate and safe for sale to the general public.

**Keeping the environment in mind.**DLA Disposition Services manages the disposal of hazardous property for DoD activities, maximizing the use of each item and minimizing environmental risks and costs through monitored compliant disposal.

**Special programs.**A Resource Recovery and Recycling Program conserves natural resources, reduces waste products and returns revenue to the military services. Through recycling, the Precious Metals Recovery Program significantly reduces the need for DoD to purchase metals such as gold, silver and platinum family metals through recycling of excess and surplus scrap containing precious metals.

**Demilitarization.**Certain property is demilitarized (i.e., rendered useless for its originally intended purpose). Surplus property with inherent military characteristics must undergo "demil." Offensive and defensive weapons and associated material are demilitarized prior to sale or as a condition of sale.

**Support for the U.S. military.**DLA Disposition Services supports America’s military wherever they are called to serve.  Current contingency missions see DLA Disposition Services civilians serving alongside combat forces in Afghanistan.  They are part of the worldwide presence within DoD, with people serving in 14 foreign countries, two U.S. territories (Guam and Puerto Rico) and 40 states.

**Small Business Ombudsman**. The DLA Disposition Services Small Business Ombudsman will receive, review and investigate concerns from small businesses about DLA Disposition Services initiatives and process changes. The Small Business Ombudsman will function in this capacity independent from DLA Disposition Services operational and policy offices and ensure that small business concerns are given fair consideration. The DLA Disposition Services Small Business Ombudsman can be reached at **DLADispositionServicesOmbudsman@dla.mil

## Vision

We embrace the DLA Vision: Warfighter- focused, globally responsive, fiscally responsible supply chain leadership

In support of the DLA mission and vision, DLA Disposition Services supports the warfighter and protects the public by providing worldwide reverse logistical solutions.  Our goal is to become the Department of Defense's Reverse Logistics Center of Excellence.

                              - DLA Disposition Services

*View a playlist highlighting DLA's disposition capabilities.*

## Library

                              - DODM 4160.21 Defense Materiel Disposition: Disposal Guidance and Procedures
                              - DOD 4160.28-M Defense Demilitarization
                              - Customer Surveys

### Defense Materiel Disposition: Disposal Guidance and Procedures

                                  - Volume 1 Disposal Guidance and Procedures  
                                  - Volume 2 Property Disposal and Reclamation  
                                  - Volume 3 Reutilization, Transfer, and Sale of Property  
                                  - Volume 4 Instructions for Hazardous Property and other Special Processing  

### Defense Demilitarization

                                  - Volume 1 Program Administration  
                                  - Volume 2 Demilitarization Coding  

### Customer Surveys

DLA Disposition Services solicits monthly customer satisfaction surveys from three specific, targeted Business Areas; RTD/LESO customers, Transportation/Turn-in customers, and Hazardous Waste customers. General Comment cards are unsolicited, random customer-initiated surveys. All surveys are compiled quarterly and briefed to DLA Disposition Services command. 

#### FY2021**

## Leaders

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People

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Disposition ServicesMarch 12, 2024

### Women's History Month Spotlight: Becky Watson

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Disposition ServicesFeb. 27, 2024

### Employee Spotlight: Jen Ganka 

Diversity

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Disposition ServicesDec. 5, 2023

### PaCE Spotlight: McKenzie Brinkerhoff

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EnterprisewideNov. 8, 2023

### Honoring Veterans: Past and Present

Whole Of Gov

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EnterprisewideJan. 16, 2024

### Montana nabs surplus snowcat for backcountry rescues

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EnterprisewideAug. 30, 2023

### Two fire departments in Georgia use DLA Disposition Services to breathe ...

DLA DS

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Disposition ServicesMarch 28, 2024

### Women's History Month Spotlight: Robin Nichols

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Disposition ServicesMarch 27, 2024

### Book Review: The Energy Bus

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