A subsidiary of DOGE is now responsible for the US government ID platform

Greg Hogan, A belonging to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), He will serve as Acting Assistant Commissioner Technology Transfer Services (TTS)unit inside General Services Administration (GSA). There, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service.

Gregory Barbaccia, Federal Chief Information Officer and Acting Director Of TTS, he wrote in an email to TTS staff that Hogan will focus on growing the Login.gov user base, with the ultimate goal of the product becoming “a world-class identity platform recognized outside the federal government.” Until earlier this year, it was text-to-speech Led by Thomas Shedda former engineer at Tesla and under his supervision TTS He lost 50 percent of its employees in the first months of 2025.

Hogan came to government in January 2025 from a startup called Comma.ai, which works on autonomous vehicle automation technology. He served as CIO for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as a DOGE agent I dug into the agency It made it one of the nerve centers for a government takeover in early 2025. While there, Hogan signed Privacy impact assessment Which allowed the creation of a new email server that DOGE would use for email The entire federal workforce Some of the most famous government-level emails, including the infamous emails “Fork in the road” A letter encouraging employees to submit “deferred resignation” and leave the government. Another email asked government employees to explain what they were working on each week — DOGE later Uses artificial intelligence To analyze responses. It later became the email server The focus of the lawsuit It was brought by federal employees who claim that OPM violated the law by not publishing a privacy impact assessment before rolling out the new server.

Hogan notes on his LinkedIn 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 co-founder 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 one secure account to access services and information across multiple government agencies. Developed in part by American Digital Servicewhich is now called the US DOGE Service.

In December 2025, Login.gov released a Road map Details plans to integrate mobile driving licenses into the service and use passports as a form of identity confirmation. The presentation repeatedly highlights the service’s value in combating fraud, which has become a Main focus From the Trump administration.

“There is a campaign to make login a national identifier, meaning we will hold all the information you need for any government interaction: in addition to the standard identifier (name, etc.), we will also have income information, citizenship status, information 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 it was done right,” the employee says. “With a DOGE guy in charge…this would 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 is “very focused on listening to the professionals who work for him” and that he has “the right attitude for the long term.”

Although the DOGE in its original form dissolved in June 2025 with billionaire Elon Musk leaving government, many of its activists remain in power. Strong positions Throughout the government, including the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the Social Security Administration. Others turned to the private sector, including… Government contractors.

McKenna Kelly contributed reporting.