Defense Logistics Agency finds improvements through robotic process automation December 29, 2020 The use of bots at the Defense Logistics Agency has contributed 200,000 hours of work. (ipopba/Getty Images) WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Defense’s logistics arm leads the federal government in deployment of robotic process automation tools, according to a new report from the federal RPA community of practice. In the last two years, the Defense Logistics Agency, the DoD’s combat logistics support agency, has deployed 96 robotic process automation automations, tools that automate basic tasks to save time, the report states. According to the report, DLA’s RPA tools have completed 200,000 hours of annualized work. DLA doesn’t track hours saved, but rather hours contributed, the report notes. Employees who did work that has been