Greg Hogan

Coder, age 42
Tech Industry Links: Andreessen Horowitz

It’s not surprising that there are reports that OPM has been training AI models with information on government personnel. Greg Hogan, the agency’s CIO, previously worked for an AI company that was backed Marc Andreesen’s firm Andreesen Horowitz. After leaving OPM abruptly in September 2025, he has reportedly moved over to the National Design Studio with the title Hacker In Residence.

Positions

Position Notes
OPM
OPM 1/20/25-1/20/25 Senior Advisor to the Director for Technology and Delivery (ES-00, $195,200) «ended by promotion to CIO»
OPM 1/20/25-2/11/25 promoted to Acting Chief Information Officer (ES-00, $195,200) «testified he started as Senior Advisor but was made Acting CIO same day. Made permanent CIO on 2/11»
OPM 2/11/25-9/02/25 promoted to Chief Information Officer (ES-00, $195,200)
resigned from agency 9/02/25
NDS
NDS 10/XX/25 Hacker in Residence

Systems

System Notes
website
Agency Website 1/20/25-9/02/25
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using
unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12»
github
GitHub 1/20/25-9/02/25
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder.
unknown access «Github Enterprise»
USA Performance
USA Performance 1/20/25-9/02/25
System tracking job performance of federal employees
unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”»
Databricks
Databricks 1/28/25-9/02/25
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data
admin access (never accessed)

Events

Date Event
1/20/25
IT staff at OPM are pulled into a “911-esque call” requesting that “a political team” of 6 individuals must be given access to OPM systems. These include Charles Ezell, Greg Hogan, and Amanda Scales, as well as unidentified employees OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger) and OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde). These DOGE staffers are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance systems.
1/20/25
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with DOGE ally Greg Hogan, who will serve as the Acting CIO.
2/06/25
Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of the CIO Greg Hogan. It is unclear who ordered the original revocation of access and what changes have happened in the interim.
2/12/25
2/27/25
DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems. (fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin?)
c.3/03/25
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
3/24/25
Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against access by DOGE staff to internal systems at OPM by DOGE. However, he still allows access for DOGE-affiliated leadership at the agency including Charles Ezell, Amanda Scales and Greg Hogan.
5/30/25
The judge in AFL-CIO vs. OPM examines Greg Hogan on the stand and asks if he had followed the principle of least privilege in providing system access to DOGE. The judge’s questions indicated that she seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE’s “chaotic” access to systems at OPM.
c.9/02/25
Greg Hogan has reportedly departed from his role as Chief Information Officer at OPM. He had held it from the first day of the Trump Administration when the acting CIO was demoted by Charles Ezell.
2/23/26
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.