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

Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit within the General Services Administration (GSA). There, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service.

Gregory Barbaccia, the federal chief information officer and acting director of TTS, wrote in an email to TTS staff that Hogan will be focused on growing Login.gov’s user base, with the ultimate goal of the product “becoming a world-class identity platform recognized beyond the federal government.” Until earlier this year, TTS was led by Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer under whom TTS lost 50 percent of its staff in the early months of 2025.

Hogan came to the government in January 2025 from a startup called Comma.ai, which works on self-automation technology for cars. He served as the CIO at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as DOGE’s operatives burrowed into the agency and made it one of the nerve centers of its government takeover in early 2025. While there, Hogan signed off on the privacy impact assessment that allowed for the creation of a new email server that DOGE used to email the entire federal workforce some of the so-called agency’s most infamous government-wide emails, including the infamous “Fork in the Road” message that encouraged employees to take a “deferred resignation” and leave government. Another email asked government workers to account for what they were working on each week—DOGE later used AI to analyze responses. The email server later became the focus of a lawsuit brought by federal workers alleging that OPM had violated the law by not publishing the privacy impact assessment before rolling out the new server.

On his LinkedIn, Hogan indicates that he remained VP of Infrastructure at Comma.ai until October 2025, throughout his time at OPM. In September, Hogan left OPM to join the National Design Service, run by Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia, who was also affiliated with DOGE.

GSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Launched in 2017, Login.gov was developed as a way for people to have a single, secure account to access services and information across multiple government agencies. It was developed in part by the US Digital Service, which is now called the US DOGE Service.

In December 2025, Login.gov released a road map detailing plans to integrate mobile drivers’ licenses into the service and to use passports as a form of identity confirmation. The presentation repeatedly highlights the service’s value in combatting fraud, which has become a major focus of the Trump administration.

“There’s a push to make Login a national ID in the sense that we would retain all info you'd need for any government interaction: In addition to standard ID (name, etc.), we’d also have income info, citizenship status, info on dependents, etc.,” believes a TTS employee who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

“This would be great if implemented right,” says the employee. “With a DOGE guy in charge … this will look more like a central repository for surveillance.”

Another TTS employee, who also spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity, was more optimistic, saying that Hogan “puts a lot of emphasis on listening to the career feds who work for him” and that he has “the right long-term attitude.”

Although DOGE in its original form dissolved in June 2025 with billionaire Elon Musk’s departure from government, many of its operatives remain in powerful positions across the government, including at the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the Social Security Administration. Others have decamped to the private sector, including to government contractors.