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The federal government’s human capital arm added several new industry partners to its Tech Force hiring effort Monday as the program begins to take root in agencies. The new batch of companies is Cisco, Scale AI, Wiz, Arista Networks, Armada, Cognition AI, Cognizant, Payward, and Moveworks, per a release from the Office of Personnel Management. They join a cohort of a couple dozen companies that are already part of the program’s industry support, including OpenAI, Google Public Sector, xAI, and Palantir. “These partnerships bring world-class engineering expertise into public service and create a stronger pipeline between industry and government at a moment when modernizing federal technology has never been more important,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a written statement Monday.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal want answers from the Social Security Administration chief following a whistleblower complaint that revealed a DOGE plan to target undocumented immigrants by moving 2.7 million living people to the agency’s Death Master File. In letters sent Friday to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano and three DOGE alums — Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling — the lawmakers shared the protected disclosure of a former career SSA official, Jeremiah Schofield, who spent more than 25 years at the agency. Schofield, an expert in the process by which the SSA assigns Social Security numbers and cards, was called to meetings with the three DOGE representatives and other career agency staff to discuss potential fraud and the Numident system, which includes all information applicants must disclose for a Social Security card.
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• Cisco, Scale AI among new batch of Tech Force partners via FedScoop: fedscoop.com/cisco-scale-ai-among-new-batch-of-tech-force-partners
• Democrats push SSA on reported DOGE plan to ‘kill off’ living individuals in database via FedScoop: fedscoop.com/social-security-whistleblower-doge-death-master-file
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The federal government’s human capital arm added several new industry partners to its Tech Force hiring effort Monday as the program begins to take root in agencies. The new batch of companies is Cisco, Scale AI, Wiz, Arista Networks, Armada, Cognition AI, Cognizant, Payward, and Moveworks, per a release from the Office of Personnel Management. They join a cohort of a couple dozen companies that are already part of the program’s industry support, including OpenAI, Google Public Sector, xAI, and Palantir. “These partnerships bring world-class engineering expertise into public service and create a stronger pipeline between industry and government at a moment when modernizing federal technology has never been more important,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a written statement Monday.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal want answers from the Social Security Administration chief following a whistleblower complaint that revealed a DOGE plan to target undocumented immigrants by moving 2.7 million living people to the agency’s Death Master File. In letters sent Friday to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano and three DOGE alums — Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling — the lawmakers shared the protected disclosure of a former career SSA official, Jeremiah Schofield, who spent more than 25 years at the agency. Schofield, an expert in the process by which the SSA assigns Social Security numbers and cards, was called to meetings with the three DOGE representatives and other career agency staff to discuss potential fraud and the Numident system, which includes all information applicants must disclose for a Social Security card.
Links
• Cisco, Scale AI among new batch of Tech Force partners via FedScoop: fedscoop.com/cisco-scale-ai-among-new-batch-of-tech-force-partners
• Democrats push SSA on reported DOGE plan to ‘kill off’ living individuals in database via FedScoop: fedscoop.com/social-security-whistleblower-doge-death-master-file
#federal #government #technology #news #ustechforce #technews #governmentnews #scottkupor #opm #elizabethwarren #richardblumenthal #doge #ssa #immigration #immigrationenforcement #departmentofhomelandsecurity #homelandsecurity #dhs #kristinoem #frankbisignano #whistleblower #jeremiahschofield #govtech
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We discuss the latest news and trends facing government leaders on such topics as technology, management and workforce. The program will explore headlines of the day as well as in depth discussions with top executives in both government and industry.
The Daily Scoop Podcast is released every weekday afternoon. For the latest insights from Washington, you can subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, and Spotify. fedscoop.com/show/the-daily-scoop-podcast
