A DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Government's ID Platform

Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the alleged Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), volition service arsenic acting adjunct commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a portion wrong the General Services Administration (GSA). There, helium volition oversee Login.gov, the government’s unafraid login and individuality service.

Gregory Barbaccia, the national main accusation serviceman and acting director of TTS, wrote successful an email to TTS unit that Hogan volition beryllium focused connected increasing Login.gov’s userbase, with the eventual extremity of the merchandise “becoming a world-class individuality level recognized beyond the national government.” Until earlier this year, TTS was led by Thomas Shedd, a erstwhile Tesla technologist nether whom TTS lost 50 percent of its unit successful the aboriginal months of 2025.

Hogan came to the authorities successful January 2025 from a startup called Comma.ai, which works connected self-automation exertion for cars. He served arsenic the CIO astatine the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) arsenic DOGE’s operatives burrowed into the agency and made it 1 of the nervus centers of its authorities takeover successful aboriginal 2025. While there, Hogan signed disconnected connected the privacy interaction assessment that allowed for the instauration of a caller email server that DOGE utilized to email the full national workforce immoderate of the alleged agency’s astir infamous government-wide emails, including the infamous “Fork successful the Road” connection that encouraged employees to instrumentality a “deferred resignation” and permission government. Another email asked authorities workers to relationship for what they were moving connected each week—DOGE aboriginal used AI to analyse responses. The email server aboriginal became the focus of a lawsuit brought by national workers alleging that OPM had violated the instrumentality by not publishing the privateness interaction appraisal earlier rolling retired the caller server.

On his LinkedIn, Hogan indicates that helium remained VP of Infrastructure astatine Comma.ai until October 2025, passim his clip astatine OPM. In September, Hogan near OPM to articulation the National Design Service (NDS), tally by AirBnB co-founder Joe Gebbia, who was besides affiliated with DOGE.

GSA did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Launched successful 2017, Login.gov was developed arsenic a mode for radical to person a single, unafraid relationship to entree services and accusation crossed aggregate authorities agencies. It was developed successful portion by the US Digital Service, which is present called the US DOGE Service.

In December 2025, Login.gov released a roadmap detailing plans to integrate mobile drivers’ licenses into the service, and to usage passports arsenic a signifier of individuality confirmation. The presumption repeatedly highlights the service’s worth successful combatting fraud, which has go a major focus of the Trump administration.

“There’s a propulsion to marque Login a nationalist ID successful the consciousness that we would clasp each info you'd request for immoderate authorities interaction: successful summation to modular ID (name, etc), we'd besides person income info, citizenship status, info connected dependents, etc,” believes a TTS worker who spoke to WIRED connected the information of anonymity for fearfulness of retaliation.

“This would beryllium large if implemented right,” says the employee. “With a DOGE feline successful charge…this volition look much similar a cardinal repository for surveillance.”

Another TTS employee, who besides spoke to WIRED connected the information of anonymity, was much optimistic, saying that Hogan “puts a batch of accent connected listening to the vocation feds who enactment for him,” and that helium has “the close agelong word attitude.”

Although DOGE successful its archetypal signifier dissolved successful June 2025 with billionaire Elon Musk’s departure from government, galore of its operatives inactive stay successful powerful positions crossed the government, including astatine the State Department, Department of Defense, and the Social Security Administration. Others person decamped to the backstage sector, including to government contractors.

Makena Kelly contributed reporting.