The new 2021-2026 DLA Strategic Plan was released last week outlining 

how DLA can leverage its logistics capabilities to support a growing Whole 

of Government mission without compromising Warfighter support.

Please, take some time to familiarize yourself with the plan. Look at 

it through the lense of your role in the agency and do your part to 

implement the tenets every day as you execute our mission. 

The new Line of Effort are:

• Warfighter Always

• Support to the Nation

• Trusted Mission Partner

• Modernized Acquisition and

 Supply Chain Management

• Future of Work

The plan focuses on three Critical Capabilities for how DLA can be ready 

to act, adapt, reform, and embrace change to improve our organizational 

efficiency and effectiveness:

• People and Culture

• Fiscal Stewardship

• Digital-Business Transformation

The plan emphasizes five key elements: engaged leadership, empowered 

working teams, cross-functional collaboration, flexible and iterative 

execution processes, and outcome-based targets.

With a world-class DLA Energy team working to translate this plan into 

real results, we can show how we adapt to reflect the rapidly changing, 

competitive environment in which we operate.

New DLA Strategic Plan

ENERGY CONNECTION

 Brig. Gen. Canlas and I completed a very 

successful senior leader Strategic Offsite 

6-7 April. A key message we shared was 

that we are in a 6 to12-month period that 

will involve a great amount of change so 

we should strive to get ahead of what we 

anticipate is to come. We want to develop a 

transformative mindset and we want to be 

flexible, adaptable and adjust as needed. 

 Hot topics of discussion during the offsite 

included resourcing to support G-Invoicing, 

OCONUS hiring and the recently released 

DLA Strategic Plan 2021-2026.

 Internally, we still have work to do with 

G-Invoicing, but we are not alone across 

the Enterprise in figuring this out. We also 

discussed the ongoing challenge to recruit 

Energy OCONUS personnel particularly for 

our Middle East billets. Recently, Energy 

Middle East advertised three job openings 

and received no applicants. We discussed 

finding ways to incentivize our workforce 

to join our OCONUS commands and we are 

working with J1 to explore recruiting and 

retention initiatives. 

 Regarding the new DLA Strategic Plan, 

we defined the template for aligning our 

objectives with DLA Lines of Effort and 

Energy’s mission. The warfighter is always 

first, but our whole of government support 

will continue to be a specific area of focus 

as well as active engagement with industry, 

our customers, and other stakeholders. 

 Energy is an evolving, growing commodity 

with unique requirements. We know it’s 

going to be an uphill battle but we’re a 

first-class organization with a talented pool 

of people who are up for the challenge of 

going to the next level in support of our 

global warfighter mission.

A MESSAGE FROM 

THE DEPUTY 

COMMANDER 

Mr. W. Eric Smith

HQC/NCR COVID-19 Reconstitution Status:

Phase 0 - HPCON B 

Volume 1, Issue 8 April 19, 2021
The 2022 Worldwide Energy Conference will be March 28-30, 2022 at 

the Gaylord National Hotel at National Harbor, Maryland. 

Wearing teal to show support 

for sexual assault survivors 

and the commitment to the 

prevention of sexual assault 

and harassment, Brig. Gen. 

Jimmy Canlas signs the 

Sexual Assault Awareness 

& Prevention Month 

Proclamation alongside the 

DLA Energy Sexual Assault 

Response Coordinator Ella 

Warren and the Deputy 

Commander Eric Smith. 

Everyone should be aware that help is always available. 

The DLA Sexual Assault and Response Program equips 

the agency with credentialed Sexual Assault Response 

Coordinators who stand ready to assist victims.

Other resources available are the DLA SAPR Resource 

Website, the DLA SAPR Hotline at 800-841-0937, and 

the DoD Safe Helpline at 877-995-5247.

While we highlight sexual assault awareness and 

prevention in April, it is vitally important to make 

prevention and awareness a year-round commitment. 

Together, we must continually strive to establish a culture 

of dignity and respect where sexual harassment and 

assault are “Not in our DLA!”

Q: Can we please transition “Ameila,” the helpdesk autobot? She is 

causing more frustration than help. 

A: We realize Amelia is not meeting the IT needs of our workforce. 

There are support changes on the horizon. Under the Department’s 

IT Reform for the 4th Estate initiative, we’re on track to transition our 

Tier 1 support to the DISA Global Service Desk in February 2022. Until 

then, we are committed to making Amelia as effective as possible 

and ensuring we have adequate technicians and processes in place to 

handle issues that Amelia is unable to resolve.

Q&A Congratulations to DLA Energy 

Supervisory Contracting Officer Ms. 

Mint Massey who was one of seven 

students (out of 23) recognized with 

a formal letter from the University of 

Virginia Darden School of Business 

faculty for their active participation 

and leadership during the Insights into Industry 

Management Course.

Deputy Director for DLA Acquisition Roxanne Banks 

said, “Darden was especially impressed with this round 

of students and we hope that our future participants 

for this and other industry training opportunities 

exhibit the same level of enthusiasm, intellectual 

curiosity and willingness to share like Mint did. She 

is exactly the kind of acquisition professional we are 

looking to send when it comes to these opportunities. 

She has set a high standard for future participants!”

Congratulations to the 

DLA Energy International 

Agreements team 

for negotiating a 

new Romanian fuel 

agreement! Read more in 

DLA News Room. 

The Middle East team 

volunteers at the Bahrain 

animal shelter helping to 

care for animals and the 

local donkey. Read more 

about their story.

IDP Season

The FY22 Individual Development Plan season runs April 

12 to May 14 for the training plan period of Oct. 1, 2021 to 

Sept. 30, 2022.

Your IDP is your voice to communicate your 

developmental needs; without a meaningful IDP your 

training needs cannot be considered/scheduled. 

**All DLA civilian employees must have 

an approved IDP in LMS by May 14**

Read more information about the IDP process and 

purpose on the DLA HR Training & Development 

webpage. 

If you have IDP questions, please email the Energy 

Training Coordinator Ms. Adrian Hines.

WWEC Dates Announced! 

IMPORTANT: In LMS, your supervisor must be correctly listed. In 

LMS, use the drop down menu to select “My Employee File.” If 

your supervisor is incorrect, go to MyBiz/DCPDS to update. LMS 

will automatically update 24 hours later.