Aram Moghaddassi
Wrecker, coder, age 26
Tech Industry Links: Neuralink, Twitter
A former employee at both X and Neuralink, Aram Moghaddassi arrived as a hire at the Department of Labor in February and has been detailed to other agencies like Social Security or DHS to work at important projects for Musk, whether it’s trying to detect fraud at SSA or building a surveillance state for immigration. His hiring arrangements at DOL were finally made public, revealing that he was hired and then immediately detailed to SSA, where he has continued to work past his original projected end of term in June. So, there are still a lot of questions about what he has been up to.
Likely aliases: SSA-03
Positions
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DOL SSA
2/22
[as SSA-03]
detail
(reimbursed up to $71,000)
«MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA»
SSA
9/03
promoted to
Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products)
«Had reportedly been in an informal co-CIO role with Mike Russo since June, now made official»
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| SBA |
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Systems
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Grant Solutions
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A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
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CALM
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System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
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HIGLAS
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A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. read access granted by CIO |
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IDR
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A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
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NDNH
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A system for tracking wages and new hires that’s used for child support location read access granted by CTO |
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PSSNAP
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SSN application process data (Phone). This is a data extract file rather than an independent system. read-write access granted by Agency Director Leland Dudek «“these profiles concerningly included equipment pin access and write access,” the PIN would allow them to make edits without it being traced to an individual» |
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CIS
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The CIS contains information about immigrants who use Alien Numbers, or A-Numbers. unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
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ELIS
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ELIS acts as a case management system for USCIS and includes information about green cards and petitions, as well as details related to Temporary Protected Status and DACA applicants unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
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DBIS
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A system for tracking payments and business operations of USCIS unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
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FLAG
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This newly-modernized portal will help U.S. employers find qualified workers while ensuring protections for U.S. and foreign workers. admin access «granted “OIG-level” admin access» |
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REO
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System which tracks funding provided for justice-involved youth and young adults and adults who were formerly incarcerated. unknown access |
Events
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| 2/22 SSA |
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Onboard:
Unidentfied alias SSA-03 (Aram Moghaddassi) is detailed over from the Department of Labor
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| 3/05 CMS |
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Access:
Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.
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| 3/05 CMS |
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Access:
Edward Coristine, Zach Terrell, Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are also granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.
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| 3/05 CMS |
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Access:
A second wave of DOGE members detailed to HHS (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts
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| 3/05 DOL |
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Onboard:
Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor.
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| 3/12 SSA |
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Directory:
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)”
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| 3/13 HHS |
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Directory:
As later reported in a declaration in AFL-CIO et al. vs. Department of Labor, HHS employee Mark Samburg finds DOGE staff at the agency listed in an online directory as Executive Engineers (and Rachel Riley as a Senior Advisor).
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| 3/28 USCIS |
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Access:
USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling.
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| 3/28 SSA |
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Official:
As part of an interview on Fox News, Aram Moghaddassi spreads an incorrect statistic that states 40% of all phones calls to SSA are from people committing fraud.
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| 3/29 CMS |
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Legal:
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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| 4/08 SSA |
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Access:
Aram Moghaddassi adds 6300 names of suspected immigrants to the “death master file” as a way of forcing them to “self-deport” by making it impossible to use financial products. This list included the names of 7 minors.
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| 4/10 SSA |
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Access:
102 more names of living people are added to the Master Death File at SSA to destroy their ability to participate in society and to “self-deport” as a result.
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| 4/10 SSA |
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Disruption:
Greg Pearre, a senior career executive overseeing technologists at the SSA, is forced out of his office by security guards after clashing with CIO Scott Coulter and calling his plan to forcibly declare immigrants dead both illegal and cruel
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| 4/11 DHS |
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Directory:
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
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| 4/18 SSA |
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Disruption:
Some immigrants have been forced to prove they aren’t dead after being added to the Master Death File in an attempt to force them to “self-deport.” The White House had falsely claimed nobody was really declared dead.
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| 5/16 SBA |
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Directory:
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communication on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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| 6/06 SSA |
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Sighting:
A report in the New York Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.
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| 6/10 SSA |
Access:
John Solly asks staff in the Social Security Administration’s CIO office (then possibly under the leadership of Scott Coulter or Aram Moghaddassi) to create a cloud environment to upload the NUMIDENT data to. The stated reason was purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data.
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| 6/12 SSA |
Disruption:
A career official writes up a Risk Acceptance Request Form to share with Aram Moghaddassi and another unnamed career official in the office of the CIO at Social Security about DOGE’s request to have administrative access to a separate Virtual Private Cloud within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at SSA. The official classifies this as high-risk due a proposal to copy NUMIDENT data to a developer environment with looser access controls and security measures. DOGE developers would also be able to make this data publicly accessible without following the Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements for any new public services and install software not approved for operation in SSA infrastructure.
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| 6/16 SSA |
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Report:
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for SSA sends an email to Aram Moghaddassi with his assessment that moving NUMIDENT data to the cloud would be at an unacceptably high risk for being hacked or stolen (computed on a 1-5 scale with a 3 for probability of risk and 5 for the impact of this risk)
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| 6/23 SSA |
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Sighting:
Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA.
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| 6/28 SSA |
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Disruption:
According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.
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| 8/11 SSA |
Action:
Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE’s cloud could lead to the leak of every American’s social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE’s cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries.
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| 9/03 SSA |
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Official:
Commissioner Frank Bisignano issues a press release announcing the new leadership structure for the Social Security Administration. This officially confirms the reports that DOGE members Aram Moghaddassi and Mike Russo had effectively been acting as co-CIOs, with Mr. Moghaddassi named to the title of Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) and Mr. Russo to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions)
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