Richard D. Davis, Director,
Total Force Pay and Acting Director of Operations

Richard (Rick) Davis is currently serving as the DFAS, Director of Total Force Pay effective December 2025. In this role, he helps ensure warfighter readiness directly supporting national security by delivering timely, accurate, and transparent pay service to the Total Force. He leads a workforce of 2,200 that will transform the end-to-end pay experience and services to 6.4M warriors, military retirees, and federal civilians. In addition, Mr. Davis has a dual appointment effective December 2025 as the DFAS, Acting Director of Operations. In this role, he is responsible for the management of DFAS’ mission-based organizations, where he leads a workforce of more than 8,500 to provide direct finance and accounting support to the Department of War, along with various non-DoW agencies. This includes oversight of Accounting, Financial Reporting, Military Pay, Civilian Pay, Debt and Claims, Military Retired Pay, Transportation Pay, Travel Pay, Contract Pay, Disbursing, support to Foreign Military Sales, and Overseas Military Banking. 

Mr. Davis has served in various capacities throughout DFAS. He was the Director of Enterprise Solutions and Standards (ESS) from January to December 2025 where he was responsible for providing financial management services and standard enterprise solutions to support the Department of War mission and DFAS customers. Mr. Davis also served as Director of DFAS Indianapolis from January 2021-January 2025 and Deputy Director since Nov 2019. He was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the federal government’s third largest building and over 4,100 federal employees across the globe that provide a range of finance and accounting services to the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Veterans Administration, and 26 U.S. Defense Agencies.

Prior to this, Mr. Davis was the Director of Enterprise Management Services at DFAS since July 2019. He promoted continuous process improvements and project management principles across the agency, improved the proliferation of cost-effective acquisition strategies, and managed agency-wide support capabilities and solutions. He also served as the agency’s Component Acquisition Executive, Continuity Coordinator, and Insider Threat Senior Official.  From March 2011 to June 2019, Mr. Davis was the Director of Internal Review, managing all internal audit responsibilities of DFAS. This included conducting performance and systems-related audits, providing advisory and assistance services to DFAS management, serving as the central liaison point for external auditors, and responding to DoW and DFAS hotline requests regarding investigation of suspected fraud, waste, and mismanagement. 

Mr. Davis was born in Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from Troy State University and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from George Mason University.  He was inducted into the Senior Executive Service in October 2005. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Defense Financial Manager and is a member of the Association of Government Accountants and the Society of Defense Financial Managers. 

Page updated Feb. 3,  2026