The Product Technology and Standardization division acts because the principal adviser for technical issues on petroleum, missile fuels, coal and related services and products. It maintains specification and measurement contract clauses and represents DLA Vitality at business standardization teams to ensure that product specification changes don’t adversely affect end-person functions. The division reviews and approves all cataloguing adjustments for both petroleum and aerospace power merchandise and serves because the lead standardization activity for petroleum products in the Department of Defense. Moreover, it maintains the Petroleum Quality Information System and offers technical help for the introduction of recent supply lines, equivalent to alternative fuels, and for resolving issues in storage tanks, transportation and handling techniques attributable to gasoline chemistry.
The division can be responsible for the Vitality Analysis and Development Program, which seeks out research & growth solutions for renewable vitality initiatives, in addition to alternative and synthetic fuels to fulfill military service wants while lowering the DoD carbon footprint. These options assist safe installation vitality, scale back petroleum want and consumption, and ship fuel more effectively and economically.