Clark Minor

Clark Minor promoted to Chief Information Officer at HHS

Three DOGE staffers – Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Clark Minor – are listed as part of the NIH Business System Department. This would grant them access to NIH’s central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system

Four DOGE staffers are identified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.

FDA staff conduct a meeting to provide a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor, the new CIO for HHS.

Clark Minor starts as Chief Technology Officer at HHS.

In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grants, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the Payment Management System system.

Clark Minor starts as Acting Chief AI Officer at HHS.

All employees at HHS and its subsidiary agencies receive an email informing them that ChatGPT will be rolled out to the entire agency immediately. The rollout is being managed by Clark Minor, and the email states that the deployment is secure enough that agency staff can even include procurement-sensitive data and “non-sensitive” PII into the chats, although sensitive PII, classified informatio and other confidential information should not be shared.

HHS announces a reorganization of its technology organization to revert a change made in 2024 and put the HHS CIO formally in charge of more departments. This role is currently held by Clark Minor, who has been in the position since last May. HHS IT operations are reported to be fairly unstable, with most agencies being run by Acting CIOs who have not been permanently appointed to the role.