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<h1>Welcome to NFFS!</h1>
<p style="font-size:11px;"> The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is the Dept. of Defense's largest combat support agency. It supplies almost every consumable item America's military services need to operate. Its latest initiatives have sought to streamline the supply depot and distribution system, focusing on moving DLA support far forward to the point of military customers' demand and managing suppliers, not just supplies. It no longer has warehouses of huge inventories and has increased use of contractors, even in the battlefield. <br />
By implementing Enterprise Business Systems, DLA has updated and integrated supply chain and financial management processes and systems making DLA support to the war-fighter faster and more efficient. DLA manages 5.2 million different items, issues over 8,000 contracts per day, and had FY06 sales in excess of $35.5 billion. Procurements from small businesses exceed $1.0 billion in FY2005. <em><b>Therefore, there are significant business opportunities for foundries, either via direct business with DLA or to prime contractors. </b></em><br />
DLA business is conducted along supply chains, of which the aviation, land, maritime, and construction and equipment supply are the ones of most interest to suppliers of castings.<br />
DLA, like many other buying organizations, is implementing more electronic commerce. In fact, DLA, in its efforts to streamline both the solicitation and award processes, is insisting that most of its business be done electronically from the time of the solicitation all the way through the submission of invoices for goods sold. <em><b> Because of this major change in how DLA is conducting its procurement business, this guide has been developed to assist foundry professionals in preparing to be able to do business with DLA and to provide answers to some of the questions that may arise during the bidding process.</b></em>
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<p style="font-size:11px;">AMC’s Castings for Improved Defense Readiness program is sponsored the Armaments Research and Development Engineering Center, Picatinny, NJ and <br />Benet Laboratories, Watervliet, NY.</p>
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