The Trump administration replaces some of the country’s best technology officers by the talent of Silicon Valley, who are connected to Elon Musk and companies that are connected to Peter Thiel. This could make it easier for the so -called Musks Efficiency of the government’s Ministry (Doge) engineers to get access Sensitive government systemsSources and experts say.
In the past few weeks, several technological leaders who have been geared with muscles as the main information officer or CIOs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Energy (omb) (omb) and the Department of Energy (installed). CIOS manage the information technology of an agency and monitor access to sensitive databases and systems, including more classified.
“The CIOs of the Federal Authority have used the authority of all asset administrations of the agency, the software to monitor laptops and telephones of civil servants”, a former bidding official with knowledge of the knowledge of the CIO functions. Databases and systems and monitoring of all IT contracts per fitara (the law on the reform of the Federal Information Technology). The General’s Inspectors). “
So far, these new CIOs have all been appointed. In most authorities, however, the position is filled by career officers. Last week OPM I.Puts out a new memo This would re -classify these impartial roles and essentially enable the Trump government to replace CIOs at will to better carry out their agenda. The previous dates can serve as an indicator of who will take over IT departments throughout the government as soon as the command comes into force.
At the end of the last month, Gregory Barbaccia was discontinued as Federal Chief Information Officer, a position within OMB that monitors the performance of all federal authorities and manages the budget. Barbaccias LinkedIn shows that he spent most of his career in technology, including a 10-year stay at Palantir. When Barbaccia Palantir left in 2020, his role was head of intelligence and investigation. The CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp, recently referred to the “disorder” of Doger’s cost reduction initiatives and said: “Whatever is good for Americans for America and very good for Palantir.” The company has government contracts made billions. The Palantir shares reached an all-time high last week after a better quarterly winning report. Palantir last week announced Plans to integrate Musk’s large voice model into the KI platform from Palantir.
Ryan Riedel was installed as Chief Information Officer of the Doe last week, reports of reports from E&E news. In DOE in particular, the CIO monitors in addition to the elements of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which monitors the US nuclear weapons nuclear weapons. Riedel Reports worked as a “Lead Network Security Engineer” at Musk’s Rocket Company SpaceX.
Although not every new CIO has direct connections to musk or Palantir, they have all deep silicon Valley connections. Greg Hogan is now that CIO from opmOr what is essentially the HR department of the US government. Hogan is said to be a special government employee and not a full-time surgery employee. After a recently carried out lawsuit. Hogan previously worked at Comma.ai, a company that builds automated driving software. Musk supposedly drove out a job offered by Comma.ai-Memal CEO George Hotz in 2015 to work on self-driving technologies, but the deal Reports that sour After Hotz claimed that Tesla was superior to his self -driving technology.
