During a meeting on Monday morning, Thomas Shedd, the director of the recently appointed technological transformation services and Elon Musk Ally, told workers of the general services administration that the new administrator of the agency was pursuing an “strategy IA -Fits, “said Wired sources.
Throughout the meeting, Shedd shared its vision of a GSA which works as a “start -up software”, automating different internal tasks and centralizing federal government.
The Monday meeting, held in person and on Google, comes a few days after Wired reported that many Musk partners have migrated to jobs at the highest levels of GSA and the staff management office (OPM ). Before joining TTS, which is hosted in the GSA, Shedd was software engineer at Tesla, one of the musk companies. The transition caused a massive confusion among the GSA staff who were thrown into surprised head meetings, forced to present their code – often to the young engineers who have not identified – and were Asked what the future of the agency’s technological working group will look like.
Shedd tried to answer these questions on Monday, providing details on a number of projects that the agency will continue in the weeks and months to come. Its particular objective, according to sources, was an increased role for AI not only to the GSA, but in agencies on the level of the government.
In what he described as an “IA-STHT strategy”, say sources, Shedd has provided a handful of examples of projects The acting administrator of GSA, Stephen Ehikian, seeks to prioritize, including development “AI coding agents” which would be made available for all agencies. Shedd clearly indicated that he thought that a large part of the work at TTS and that the wider government, especially around financial tasks, could be automated.
“This raises red flags,” said a cybersecurity expert on Monday due to concerns of reprisals said to Wired, who noted that government automation is not the same thing as the automation of other things , like autonomous cars. “People, people, especially people who are not experts in the fields of materials, projects often think” it’s stupid “and discover how difficult the thing is.”
Shedd asked employees to consider TTS as a software startup that had become financially unstable. He suggested that the federal government needed a centralized data frame and that it was actively working with others on a strategy to create one, although it is not clear where this repository would be based or if these projects would comply with the laws on confidentiality. Shedd has described these concerns as “road dam” and said that the agency should always move forward to see what was possible.
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Sources indicate that during the call, the Shedd has closely connected TTS and digital services of the United States – have reracted as a United States Doge Service, or Doge, under Trump – like “pillars” of A new technological strategy. Later in the meeting, he declared that he did not intend to merge the two groups and that the projects would cross them both according to the personnel and the expertise available, but continued to underline the collaboration to come between TTS and DOGE.
The employees, say sources, also asked questions about young engineers, who had not previously identified in meetings. Shedd said that one of them felt enough to come at meetings on Monday, say sources, although Shedd added that he was nervous about their publicly revealed name and their life upset.
Shedd could not answer many personnel questions about deferred resignations, the return to the office of the office, or if the agency staff faced substantial cuts, according to sources. At one point, Shedd said that the workforce was likely for TTS, but refused to give more details. (Similar questions were also asked in the leadership of the Government Ministry of Efficiency at a Friday meeting reported for the first time by Wired.)
Towards the end of the call, sources say, a TTS worker asked if they should work more than 40 hours per week, to face all the work to come and potentially dismissed workers. Shedd replied that he was “clear”.