FORT BELVOIR, Va. - Defense Logistics Agency Director Navy Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek has revised the 2012 Director’s Guidance to enhance the agency’s transparency and accountability.
“With a new Defense strategy, an evolving Joint Operating Environment and big budget issues on the horizon, DLA must re-think how we execute our mission,” Harnitchek writes in the document’s introduction. “As we continue navigating DLA’s course through this ever-changing and increasingly complex future, I felt it important to revise the 2012 Director’s Guidance to reflect these changing dynamics and the changing requirements of our support to the Department of Defense and other warfighting partners.”
Harnitchek also added measurable goals to many of the guidance’s initiatives.
“We will track them, meet them, and let everyone know how we’re doing,” Harnitchek writes. “Measuring our performance is paramount, it will allow us to correct course, if necessary, with speed and agility.”
Harnitchek emphasized that accomplishing these new goals will be a difficult task that requires efforts from across the agency.
“This Director’s Guidance is not just an HQ initiative. It is a critical ‘We are DLA’ journey that all of us must commit to – and I need your help to make it happen. In fact, it won’t happen without you, the great DLA team, all pulling together.”
The revised 2012 Director’s Guidance is available here.