In a Monday morning meeting, Thomas Shedd, recently appointed person Technology conversion service director And Elon Musk Allies, said General service management staff That the new administrators of the agency are pursuing AI's first strategy, the Muslim sources told Wired.
During the meeting, Shedd shared his vision of a GSA acting like a Muslim startup software company, automated different internal tasks and focused data from all over the main. Federal coverage.
The second meeting, held directly and on Google met, took place a few days after Wired reported that many Musk's colleagues have migrated to work At the highest level of GSA and Human Resource Management Office (OPM). Before joining TTS, placed in GSA, Shedd was a software engineer at Tesla, one of Musk's companies. The conversion has caused a series of confusion among GSA employees who were thrown into a one -on -one meeting, forced to present their code.Often for young engineers not to identify themselvesFraud and wondering the future of the agency's technology task force will be like.
Shedd tried to answer these questions on Monday, providing details about a number of projects that the agency will pursue in the next week and month. His special focus, sources said, is an increase in AI not only at GSA, but also in agencies across the Government.
In what he described as AI's first strategy, the sources said that Shedd has provided a number of examples of GSA operating administrator projects Stephen Ehikian are seeking priority, including, including the priority. The development of AI encryption agents. Shedd clearly stated that he believed that many jobs at TTS and government were broader, especially in financial tasks, can be automated.
“This does not raise the red flag, a cybersecurity expert, anonymous person due to concerns about revenge told Wired on Monday, who noted that automation of the government is not like automation. Other things, such as self -driving cars. What a towel.
Shedd has guided employees to think about TTS as a software startup that has become financially unstable. He said that the federal government needs a centralized data storage and he is actively working with others in a strategy to create one, although it is not clear where this archive will be based on or if or if These projects comply with privacy law. Shedd calls these concerns a barrier of Muslims and says that the agency should still promote what possible.
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The sources say that in the call, Shedd closely connected the US digital TTS and services, called the US Doge service, or Doge, under Trump, as a technology strategy. new. Later in the meeting, he said that there was no plan to merge two groups and projects will flow through both depending on the staff and the expertise available, but continue to emphasize the upcoming cooperation between TTS and DOGE.
Employees and sources said that they also asked questions about young engineers who had not previously claimed to themselves in meetings. Shedd said that one of them felt comfortable enough to introduce himself in meetings on Monday, the sources said that, although Shedd added that he was worried about their names. And their lives are improved.
Shedd could not answer many employees' questions about resignation, returning to the office entrustment or if the agency's staff would face significant cuts, according to sources. At a time, Shedd pointed out that the cutting of the workforce was capable of TTS, but refused to provide additional details. (The same questions are asked about the effective government leadership In a sixth meeting was first reported by Wired.)
By the end of the call, the sources said that a TTS employee asked if they were expected to work more than 40 hours per week, to deal with all the upcoming and capable jobs. fired workers. Shedd answered that it was unclear.