Defense Finance and Accounting Service careers
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The Secretary of Defense created DFAS in 1991 to pull the department's scattered finance and accounting shops into one agency, and the consolidation since is the whole story: more than 300 installation-level offices folded into 10 sites, the number of systems in use cut from 330 to 70, and the headquarters realigned from Arlington to Indianapolis. In fiscal 2025 it processed 132 million pay transactions covering 6.6 million people and accounts, and disbursed $652 billion. It runs as a working capital fund, billing its customers for the work instead of drawing a direct appropriation.
This is federal pay and accounting at scale: military and civilian payroll, retiree and annuitant accounts, commercial invoices, and the general ledger behind them, which means accountants, pay technicians, auditors, and the systems staff who keep the software running at 10 sites.