Office of Personnel Management

Noah Peters outlines with Keenan Kmiec the plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees  [Date is approximate in deposition]

Noah Peters receives a job offer to work at the OPM. He describes it as very general and vague.  [Date is approximate in deposition]

Noah Peters starts working on two memos around temporary authorities for Schedule C and another on probationary employees and admininstrative leave. These are to be issued on January 20th.  [Date is approximate in deposition]

Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.

Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with Greg Hogan in an acting capacity

Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM within the Director's office

The DOGE team moves into a secure office within OPM, installing sofa beds and armed security

OPM sends out a first test email from its new government-wide email system

Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at the OPM

OPM sends a second test email from its new government-wide email system to all government employees

A member of the OPM union posts a Reddit message reportedly from an OPM employee stating that the email server is a piece of outside equipment and the goal is to generate lists of all govt employees to send massive firing notices later.

Two anonymous federal employees file a class action lawsuit against OPM for launching the new email system without conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment for the new system

OPM sends out the "Fork in the Road" email to all federal employees offering them a chance to resign

Wired Magazine provides an early listing of which Musk-affiliated DOGE staff now have positions at OPM  [didn’t name Coristine or Bobba bc of their ages, but later confirmed as them]

Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteer Expert

Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at the OPM

Federal employees at OPM are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership

Engineers working for DOGE within OPM used Meta's LLama AI model locally to analyze responses to the Fork in the Road resignation offer

Several more DOGE staffers (Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski) start working at OPM. All of them come from HR backgrounds in Musk-affiliated companies.

OPM attests the government-wide email system runs on agency systems

OPM issues a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) that states responses are voluntary, brief and do not include identifying information

DOGE member and lawyer Jacob Altik joins the case for the defense in Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.) without revealing he is an OPM employee working for DOGE

The court dismisses the motion for a temporary restraining order against the OPM email system since there is now a PIA available for it

In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time in their list of officials to FOIA communications for

Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working as an Expert at OPM

CNN reporter shares that a FOIA request about DOGE was replied to with "they just fired the whole privacy team"

After Elon Musk threatens on X that employees must complete a list of 5 accomplishments and send it to OPM or risk termination, OPM sends out an email requesting that list (without the threat) to every government employee. Widespread confusion occurs at many agenices.

DOGE engineer Ricardo Biasini is reported to be working on updating software to automate Reduction-in-Force (RIF) processes

OPM amends the Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to remove declarations that responses are voluntary.

Judge Alsup ruling in AFL-CIO vs. OPM (N.D. Cal.), issues a temporary restraining order that termination of probationary workers at 6 agencies were unlawful

All government employees receive a second email telling them they must list their accomplishments every Monday by 11:59pm

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE handled data at several agencies

In response to recent rulings, the OPM quietly revises its initial memo requiring federal agencies to send lists of probationary employees to the agency and downplays suggestions that the lists should be used for deciding staffing levels

The OPM Inspector General responds to questions from Democrats in Congress by stating his office will start investigating DOGE's servers and practices

A lawyer for the plaintiffs accuses the DOJ of misrepresenting Altik's participation "perhaps to preserve the illusion that OPM's counsel were ignorant of what OPM was doing with the Government-Wide Email System, or perhaps to obscure the role of DOGE and the White House in this case."

President Trump issues an executive order that requests OPM to redefine regulations to give them more power to terminate employees at other agencies

Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against access to internal systems at OPM by DOGE staff, but still allows it for OPM leadership including Ezell, Scales and Hogan

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Amanda Scales is replaced as the Chief of Staff at OPM by James Sullivan. Amanda changes to a Senior Advisor position at the agency.

Scott Kupor, the nominee to lead OPM, assured senators that he believes strong in data privacy and respecting the humanity and dignity of the workforce

In a 2-1 vote, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay against DOGE data access at the Treasury, OPM and Department of Education imposed in the case American Federation of Teachers v. Bessent (D. Maryland 2025)

The plaintiffs in AFGE, AFL-CIO, et. al vs. OPM file a motion asking for the testimony of Noah Peters to be thrown out because they argue it is misleading and possibly a fabrication in parts

Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request for an "emergency" 30-day notice for a RIF at the CFPB

OPM is set to launch a rebranded version of the formerly-named AutoRIF software for automating the process of designating staff in mass layoffs that also includes a new web interface.

OPM reports it will rolling out a Online Retirement Application (ORA) system which replaces the paper-based system for federal departments served by the National Finance Center and Interior Business Center. This was a program originally started in the Biden Administration that is being accelerated without pilot programs.

The judge in _AFL-CIO vs. OPM_ examined Greg Hogan on the stand and asked if he had followed the principle of least privilege in awarding access to DOGE. She seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE's "chaotic" access to systems at OPM.