Department of Energy

Despite its name, the Department of Energy isn’t just a government agency in charge of energy suppy and efficiency. It actually is the agency responsible for America’s nuclear weapon arsenal. Which is why there has been no amount of consternation that DOGE may have posted two of its engineers into systems that contain highly classified information.

Positions

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Name	Positions
Luke Farritor	GSA c.2/04 likely detailed
Adam Ramada	DOGE c.2/04 likely detailed
Ryan Riedel	Source Energy CIO departs after short tenure NextGov, 2025-03-07 DOE 2/07-3/07 appointed Chief Information Officer Left govt 3/07
Ross Graber	Sources Energy appoints Twitter, Google and DOGE alum as new CIO NextGov, 2025-03-13 Energy Department CIO Graber Resigns, Sources Say MeriTalk, 2025-04-28 DOE 3/13-4/18 appointed Chief Information Officer Left govt 4/18
Adam Blake	Source DOGE staffer takes on Trump reform role at independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission The Hill, 2025-07-11 date unknown unknown start type «Detailed from Energy to NRC, so assuming start there» NRC 7/11? likely detailed «In charge of implementing EO 14300»

Systems

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System	Access
Office365	Source Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel CNN, 2025-02-06 Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft Office 365 is used for agency email and knowledge management systems. 2/05- Luke Farritor

Events

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Date	Event
2/07 DOE	Source DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets National Public Radio, 2025-04-28 Sighting: DOGE staffers Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada arrive at the Department of Energy and are onboarded.According to Dept. of Energy spokesperson, DOGE staff departed the agency within a few days of arrival, but other reporting suggests they were still active and granted access to sensitive systems in the coming months. (fuzz: Date is approximate and unknown. Report is unconfirmed)
2/10 DOE	Source Third DOGE official crops up at Energy Department E&E News, 2025-02-10 Sighting: Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy’s online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staffer at the agency.
March 2025
3/13 DOE	Source Energy appoints Twitter, Google and DOGE alum as new CIO NextGov, 2025-03-13 Onboard: After reportedly supporting DOGE activities in the State Department, Ross Graber is named as the new CIO for the Department of Energy
April 2025
4/01 DOE	Source With Painful Layoffs Ahead, Agencies Push Incentives to Quit New York Times, 2025-04-01 Disruption: Employees at the Department of Energy are sent an email offering for them to enroll in a new separate deferred resignation plan.
4/11 Commerce, DOD, DOJ, DOL, DOT, EPA, Education, DOE, HHS, HUD, NARA, NASA, NEH, NSF, SBA, State, USDA, VA	Source DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions The Washington Post, 2025-04-11 Disruption: Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted.
4/28 DOE	Source DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets National Public Radio, 2025-04-28 Access: Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada reportedly have had accounts for several weeks on systems and networks that handle classified material about nuclear weapons. This contradicts agency reports they had departed the agency within a few days of arrival.
4/28 DOE	Source Energy Department CIO Graber Resigns, Sources Say MeriTalk, 2025-04-28 Offboard: Ross Graber abruptly resigns as the CIO of the Department of Energy, making him the second DOGE pick to be named to and exit the role. The responsibilities of CIO are reverted back to the agency’s Deputy CIO, who had been serving in the role after Ryan Riedel’s departure.
May 2025
5/12 DOD, Education, DOE, GSA, HUD	Source DOGE Instructions and a White House Deadline: How the Government Canceled Harvard’s Grants The Harvard Crimson, 2025-07-17 Disruption: In a retaliation against the university coordinated by GSA, grants for Harvard University from DOD, HUD, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education are all terminated. There were 200 grants from DOD alone. The stated reasons varied but included that they no longer effectuated the administration’s priorities or directly accusing Harvard of fostering antisemitism on campus.
June 2025
6/26 Commerce, DOD, DOJ, DOL, DOT, EPA, Education, DOE, HHS, HUD, NARA, NASA, NEH, NSF, SBA, State, USDA, VA	Source DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions The Washington Post, 2025-06-27 Official: In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn’t necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system.
August 2025
8/28 DOE	Source Key US Energy Data Delayed or Suspended After DOGE Cuts Bloomberg, 2025-08-28 Disruption: As a direct result of DOGE-driven cuts, the Department of Energy announces that it has to delay a regular report tracking shipments of uranium fuel and completely suspend a report on photovoltaic panels. The department that tracks such reports lost more than 100 people out of its 350-person workforce this year. These reports are not as critical as other Energy reports, but the damage to data collection and reporting is making energy traders nervous.