Peter Battaglia, Deputy Director of Mission Assurance at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), joins Mike Shanley to discuss DLA’s priorities and initiatives in today’s evolving defense landscape. The conversation covers logistics surge capacity, securing the supply chain, and the role of NATO’s industrial base in supporting global readiness.

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DLA website: https://www.dla.mil/

DLA Strategic Plan (2025-2030): https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/StrategicPlan/DLAStrategicPlan2025-2030March2025.pdf

BIOGRAPHY:

Mr. Peter Battaglia is the DLA Mission Assurance Deputy Director serving as the DLA lead for Mission Assurance, Defense Critical Infrastructure, and Continuity of Operations Planning. He also serves as the Supply Chain Security and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Program Manager for DLA. In this position he is the expert technical authority responsible for oversight of the design, implementation, execution, and promulgation of DLA's SCS/SCRM Program for worldwide support of OSD, JCS, CCMDs, and Military Services plans and operations.

He graduated from the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy in 2021. He previously served as the Customer Relations Management Process Owner managing a portfolio of $7M and 800 personnel, including the Customer Interaction Center (helpline) and Customer Support Representatives interfacing with the supported services, combatant commands, and inter-agencies.

Mr. Battaglia established and implemented the DLA Agency Synchronization Operations Center (ASOC). The ASOC synchronizes and integrates the Agency’s operational mission and business support functions to provide agile, global support to the Warfighter and select Federal Agencies. The ASOC provides Agency leadership and mission partners a shared and standardized view; enables operational support serving as the consensus source of truth among all mission partners; focuses the Agency on output, readiness, effectiveness, and service to standards; and provides the tools and actionable information to conduct root cause analysis, develop solutions and courses of action, and implement senior leader decisions.

Mr. Battaglia also served as the Chief of the DLA Logistics Operations (J3) Director’s Action Group aligning the strategic efforts and messaging of the J3 and aligned Executive Directors to ensure DLA logistics support. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Battaglia strategically assessed DLA Customer Support by evaluating the DLA personnel laydown and functions resulting in $21M savings across the FYDP. He served as the Medical Materiel Executive Agent (MMEA) Analyst for DLA, orchestrating and synchronizing medical logistics for the complete range of military and whole of government missions such as utilization of non-FDA approved medical materiel and transportation policies allowing commercial narcotic shipments.

Mr. Battaglia was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and hails from Herndon, Virginia. He received his Masters in National Security and Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School in 2021 and his LOGTECH MBA, Logistics and Technology, from the Kelly School of Business, Indiana University in 2010. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2000. His wife, two children, and semi-classic BMW hobby serve to keep him busy while not working.

Mr. Battaglia has received the DLA Meritorious Civilian Performance Award (2011) and the DLA Superior Civilian Performance Award (2020 and 2005).

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