DOGE Agent: Gregory Barbaccia

Musk Connection: Unknown

Other Corporate Affiliations: Palantir Technologies, blockchain search engine Elementus, software engineering and finance start up Theorem

DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Executive Office of the President

Gregory Barbaccia Was Appointed Chief Information Officer At The Office Of Management And Budget (OMB) And Conducted Interviews With Civil Servants On Behalf Of DOGE

• Barbaccia was appointed as the chief information officer (CIO) of the Office of Management and Budget. According to reporting from Wired, the CIO manages monitoring software of civil servants, IT at a given agency’s databases, and contracts under the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).
• As CIO, Barbaccia sent an email to federal agencies on March 12th urging them to refrain from terminating cybersecurity employees as part of the mass layoff directive from the White House.
• According to reporting from Bloomberg, Barbaccia was one of the DOGE agents conducting interviews of civil servants following Trump’s inauguration. Politico reported that federal employees at the General Services Administration (GSA) described the interviews as “anxiety provoking” and aimed at removing non-technical employees and eventually replacing them with AI.

Gregory Barbaccia Previously Served As President Of Blockchain Startup Elementus, Which Received Funding From Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research And Was Linked To Bankrupt Crypto Company Celsius

• Barbaccia was the President of blockchain startup Elementus. The startup received $12 million in Series A funding from the crypto industry, including from Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research, which went bankrupt following the collapse of its sister cryptocurrency exchange FTX.