DOGE Track

Jon Koval

Executive, age 27

Jon Koval is a vice president at Valor Equity Partners, the private-equity firm operated by Antonio Gracias. He has been working alongside Gracias at the SSA, but recently he was detailed to the DOJ to help build up DOGE’s immigrant-tracking panopticon.

Likely aliases: SSA-06

Positions

Position Notes
SSA
Source
SSA 2/23/25 [as SSA-06] Expert (NTE 2/22/26, ED-00, volunteer)
DOJ
Source
SSA DOJ 4/15/25 detailed «assuming detail from SSA»

Systems

System Notes
MBR
Source
Master Beneficiary Record 3/17/25
A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo
NUMIDENT
Source
Numerical Identification System 3/17/25
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo
SSR
Source
Supplemental Security Record master records 3/17/25
A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo
ECAS
Source
Executive Office for Immigration Review's Court and Appeals System 4/21/25
A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases
unknown access

Events

Date Event
2/23/25
Source
Social Security Administration onboards 3 more unidentified DOGE staffers – SSA-06 (Jon Koval), SSA-04 (Antonio Gracias), and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) – as volunteers with the title of Expert.
3/12/25
Source
In a sworn declaration, Florence Felix-Lawson notes “the SSA DOGE Team currently consists of ten SSA employees: four SSA special government employees (Employees 1, 4, 6, and 9) and six detailees to SSA from other government agencies and offices (Employees 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10)”
 Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Aram Moghaddassi, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
3/13/25
Source
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
 Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
3/25/25
Source
Tech staffers and contractors noticed a new DOGE staffer, Sahil Lavingia, was pushing code to a repo in the VA’s Github instance. He also appeared to be using an AI tool to write code. This later turns out to be code that is reviewing contracts to be terminated.
 Cary Volpert, Christopher Roussos, Jon Koval, Justin Fulcher, Payton Rehling, Sahil Lavingia
6/25/25
Source
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
7/01/25
Source
In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It’s unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are.