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Byron Stephenson

Vice Director (Acting)

Byron Z. Stephenson is the newly appointed J-9 Acting Vice where he oversees, validates, and prioritizes organizational alignment, strategic direction, and vision. To do this, Mr. Stephenson is focused on change management processes, identifying innovation, process improvement, and special project opportunities. He is also working towards implementing IT financial management and Cloud FINOPS capabilities for the for the organization. 

Before joining J-9, Mr. Stephenson was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Comptroller in the Defense Information Systems Agency’s s J-8 Chief Financial Officer and Requirements Analysis Directorate. In this role, he provided executive leadership and oversight for the formulation and execution of the agency’s $12.2 billion budget, which finances critical communications support to the president, essential command and control, telecommunications, computing, cloud, cyber operations and mission assurance, and other enterprise services. The budget supports activities of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the military services, the defense agencies, the intelligence community, and joint and coalition warfighters worldwide. 

Stephenson was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in October 2022. Prior to his appointment, he served as the acting deputy chief financial officer and deputy to the deputy chief financial officer. He has held several senior DISA financial manager positions, including Operations Center resource manager and four chief financial executive positions directly supporting numerous DISA directorates. In these roles, he revamped the customer engagement processes integrating telecommunications and computing services customer pricing and collection efforts. 

He has also proposed and implemented financial decisions in support of the DOD Chief Information Officer’s Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. Stephenson has represented DISA to congressional staff, coordinating all supplemental funding for efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic and deploy and sustain DISA operational capabilities in Southwest Asia. 

Shortly after graduating college in 1996, Stephenson joined the federal workforce as a DISA budget analyst intern supporting data center hosting capabilities across the continental United States. 

Stephenson earned both a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in public administration from George Mason University. He also holds an associate degree in accounting from Northern Virginia Community College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Executive Institute Leadership for a Democratic Society program and a recipient of the DISA George J. Hoffman Civilian Leadership Award and the DISA Outstanding Customer Advocacy Award. He is a Level III Certified DOD Financial Manager.