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.

Positions

Appointed:
2/23/25 [as SSA-06] Expert NTE 2/22/26, ED-00, volunteer
Source: Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 6" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Detailed To:
4/15/25 detailed from SSA «assuming detail from SSA»
Source: Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept. The New York Times, 4/18/25

Events

2/23/25
Appointed:
Jon Koval starts as Expert at SSA.
Appointed: Jon Koval 2/23/25
Position Title: Expert, Office of the CIO
Salary: Volunteer
Source: Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 6" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Onboarding:
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.
Person: Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval, Payton Rehling
Source: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-5 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency: SSA
3/12/25
Identification:
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)”
Person: Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Aram Moghaddassi, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
Source: AFL-CIO v. DOL, doc 53-1 Court Document, 3/13/25
Agency: SSA
3/13/25
Identification:
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
Person: Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
Source: These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration Wired Magazine, 3/13/25
Agency: SSA
3/17/25
:
Jon Koval is granted basic access to 3 systems at SSA.
System Access: MBR: Master Beneficiary Record
: read, 3/17/25 Jon Koval
Note: A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits
DOGE Project: Immigration
System Access: NUMIDENT: Numerical Identification System
: read, 3/17/25 Jon Koval
Note: NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody
DOGE Project: Fraud, Impunity
System Access: SSR: Supplemental Security Record master records
: read, 3/17/25 Jon Koval
Note: A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program
DOGE Project: Immigration
3/25/25
Identification:
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.
Person: Cary Volpert, Christopher Roussos, Jon Koval, Justin Fulcher, Payton Rehling, Sahil Lavingia
Source: Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs Wired Magazine, 4/04/25
Agency: VA
DOGE Project: IT Modernization, Spending
4/15/25
Detailed To:
Jon Koval detailed from SSA to DOJ
SSA Detailed To: DOJ Jon Koval 4/15/25
Source: Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept. The New York Times, 4/18/25
Note: assuming detail from SSA
4/21/25
:
Jon Koval is granted basic access to ECAS at DOJ.
System Access: ECAS: Executive Office for Immigration Review's Court and Appeals System
: unknown, 4/21/25 Jon Koval
Note: A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases
DOGE Project: Immigration
6/24/25
Interagency Coordination:
The acting counsel of the IRS, Andrew deMello, sends an email to DHS staff declining their request for data sharing. He cites that the request made from DHS lacked information mandated by the Memorandum of Understandng (MOU) between the two agencies, including why the disclosure is needed for a criminal case and the identities of ICE officers making the requests along with a sworn attestation that the info will only be used for judicial proceedings and not enforcement. DOGE staffers Anthony Armstrong and Jon Koval are included in this communication.
Person: Anthony Armstrong, Jon Koval
Source: Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS, document 51-1 Court Document, 11/10/25
Agency: DHS, DOGE, ICE, IRS
DOGE Project: Immigration
6/25/25
Oversight:
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.
Person: Cary Volpert, Christopher Roussos, Jon Koval, Justin Fulcher, Payton Rehling, Sahil Lavingia
Source: House Democrat demands VA disclose any spyware, AI installed on agency computers as part of DOGE initiative Stars and Stripes, 6/27/25
Agency: VA
DOGE Project: IT Modernization, Anti-Personnel
7/01/25
Offboarding:
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.
Person: Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval, Payton Rehling
Source: High-ranking DOGE official and Elon Musk ally, Antonio Gracias, has left government NBC News, 7/24/25
Agency: SSA