The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is the agency within the Department of Defense responsible for paying members of the U.S. military, DoD civilian employees, contractors, and annuitants, as well as providing finance and accounting services to DoD components and other federal agencies. DFAS exposes member-facing self-service portals such as myPay but does not currently publish a public developer API.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Defense, Department of Defense, Finance, and Accounting.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Government & Public Sector regime, so
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never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal
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aid: defense-finance-accounting-service
name: Defense Finance and Accounting Service
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/defense-finance-accounting-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) is the agency within the Department of Defense responsible
for paying members of the U.S. military, DoD civilian employees, contractors, and annuitants, as well as providing finance
and accounting services to DoD components and other federal agencies. DFAS exposes member-facing self-service portals such
as myPay but does not currently publish a public developer API.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: open
trial: false
try_now: false
public: true
label: Open access
confidence: low
probe_state: blocked
source:
- rate-limits
- security
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/defense-finance-accounting-service.png
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: government
tags:
- Federal-Government
- Defense
- Department of Defense
- Finance
- Accounting
- Military Pay
- Civilian Pay
- Retirement
- Annuitants
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Defense
- Department of Defense
- Finance
- Accounting
- Military Pay
- Civilian Pay
- Retirement
- Annuitants
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-09-07'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/defense-finance-accounting-service-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/defense-finance-accounting-service-llms.txt
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dfas
- type: Website
url: https://www.dfas.mil
- type: About
url: https://www.dfas.mil/About-DFAS/
- type: myPay
url: https://mypay.dfas.mil
- type: Contact
url: https://www.dfas.mil/Customer-Service/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-07'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 2
pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
state: blocked
reason: bot-challenge
detail: The Akamai edge fronting www.dfas.mil (www.dfas.mil.edgekey.net) returns an HTTP 403 "Access Denied" HTML page to
every automated client on every path - including / and /robots.txt - under a plain, a desktop Chrome and a Googlebot User-Agent,
so the agency's own website could not be read this pass; the identical denial hits www.defense.gov, www.dla.mil and www.dcaa.mil
from this egress, confirming a DoD-wide edge policy rather than anything DFAS chose. The hosts we could reach - mypay.dfas.mil
(200) and corpweb1.dfas.mil (200) - served clean 404s on all nine well-known paths and on /openapi.json, /swagger.json
and /llms.txt, and no DFAS developer program, API reference or machine-readable contract surfaced in registry or web search.
evidence:
- url: https://www.dfas.mil/
status: 403
- url: https://www.dfas.mil/robots.txt
status: 403
- url: https://www.dfas.mil/.well-known/api-catalog
status: 403
- url: https://mypay.dfas.mil/
status: 200
- url: https://mypay.dfas.mil/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://mypay.dfas.mil/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://corpweb1.dfas.mil/
status: 200
- url: https://corpweb1.dfas.mil/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
checked: '2026-09-07'
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