{"entity":{"id":796,"slug":"gregory-barbaccia","name":"Gregory Barbaccia","type":"person","role":"Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget; self-proclaimed Chief AI Officer","description":"Trump-appointed Federal CIO at the Office of Management and Budget, overseeing all federal technology spending, IT policy, AI guidance, and strategic planning. A 10-year Palantir Technologies veteran (2010-2020) who managed government accounts for DoD and law enforcement. Named defendant in AFGE v. OPM lawsuit challenging DOGE access to personnel records of tens of millions of federal employees. POGO investigation revealed $100,001-$250,000 Anduril stake and Palantir holdings. Leading the Tech Force initiative embedding ~30 private sector companies into federal agencies. Described as 'the latest White House leader to have a connection to Peter Thiel.'","imageUrl":null,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T14:08:20.154Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-19T09:20:41.065Z"},"electedOffice":null,"significance":{"score":21.4,"components":{"totalFindings":8,"connectionDegree":6.4,"recentFindings90d":0,"activeResearchJobs":0,"goblinAttributions":1,"recentSyntheses90d":0,"moneyFlowChainsTotal":0,"closedLoopMemberships":6,"moneyFlowHopsRecent90d":0},"computedAt":"2026-10-16T01:34:31.424Z"},"facts":[{"id":19832,"text":"Barbaccia is leading the Tech Force initiative, working with approximately 30 private sector companies to bring tech workers into government. Ethics questions have been raised about Tech Force managers keeping stocks and staying connected to prior companies while working for the government.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2026-06-15","source":null},{"id":19827,"text":"POGO's investigation (published August/October 2025) revealed Barbaccia's financial disclosure showed: (1) $100,001-$250,000 stake in Anduril Industries through a venture capital firm, and (2) Palantir stock holdings potentially worth up to $15,000.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-08-15","source":null},{"id":50126,"text":"OMB's internal conflict-check procedures for Senate-confirmed appointees like Barbaccia have not been disclosed in any public record, despite POGO's specific FOIA requests for Anduril divestment documentation.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":50127,"text":"The Tech Force program, which places ~30 private sector managers into federal agencies with retained stock holdings, operates outside the OGE Form 278e disclosure framework applicable to Senate-confirmed appointees like Barbaccia.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":50103,"text":"Barbaccia’s Palantir stock (valued at up to $15,000) is below the $50,000 threshold that triggers automatic disqualification under 18 U.S.C. §208 — meaning he could legally participate in Palantir procurement decisions unless OMB’s DAEO imposed additional restrictions. No public record confirms such restrictions.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":50125,"text":"Barbaccia's Senate confirmation testimony regarding Palantir stock holdings and conflict recusals has not been systematically compared with subsequent OMB procurement records for Palantir contracts, as of December 2025.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":19831,"text":"Barbaccia clarified in 2025 that while DOGE was no longer a centralised entity, its workers had been embedded within agencies and reporting to the leaders and chief information officers within those organisations.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":19826,"text":"In June 2025, Judge Denise Cote granted a preliminary injunction restricting DOGE access to OPM databases, finding OPM 'violated the law and bypassed its established cybersecurity practices.' The judge stated: 'Tens of millions of Americans depend on the Government to safeguard records that reveal their most private and sensitive affairs.'","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-06-15","source":null},{"id":19828,"text":"CNN reported that Barbaccia informed federal ethics officials in March 2025 that he was fully divested from Anduril. OMB did not provide this information to POGO despite specific requests.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-03-15","source":null},{"id":19825,"text":"On March 12, 2025, Barbaccia sent an email to federal agencies urging them to refrain from terminating cybersecurity employees as part of the mass layoff directive from the White House.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-03-12","source":null},{"id":19824,"text":"Named as a defendant in the AFGE/AFL-CIO v. OPM lawsuit (filed February 11, 2025, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York) in his official capacity as CIO for OPM. The lawsuit alleges OPM violated the Privacy Act by granting DOGE affiliates access to personnel records of tens of millions of federal employees, calling it 'the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country's history.'","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-02-11","source":null},{"id":19820,"text":"Appointed Federal CIO at the Office of Management and Budget on January 27, 2025, succeeding Clare Martorana. Described as 'the latest White House leader to have a connection to Peter Thiel.'","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-01-27","source":null},{"id":19823,"text":"Identified as a 'DOGE agent' by the Revolving Door Project. According to Bloomberg, Barbaccia was one of the DOGE agents conducting interviews of civil servants following Trump's inauguration. Politico reported federal employees at GSA described the interviews as 'anxiety provoking' and aimed at removing non-technical employees and eventually replacing them with AI.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2025-01-15","source":null},{"id":19818,"text":"Barbaccia served as CISO at Theorem, a machine learning-powered credit underwriting company co-founded by Google and Morgan Stanley alumni, from August 2022 to January 2025. Previously was head of core operations at the company.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2022-2025","source":null},{"id":19817,"text":"After Palantir, Barbaccia served as President and head of investigations at Elementus, a blockchain search engine (starting June 2020). Elementus technology used by federal agencies for high-profile cyber investigations. Elementus had access to Palantir's 'Foundry for Builders Program'; its Chief Strategy Officer was also a former Palantir employee.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2020-2022","source":null},{"id":19815,"text":"Barbaccia spent 10 years at Palantir Technologies (2010-2020). Joined in 2010 as government account manager handling DoD and local law enforcement clients. Rose to head of intelligence and investigations by 2016. Also served as security lead and core operations lead.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2010-2020","source":null},{"id":19814,"text":"Gregory Barbaccia served as a U.S. Army intelligence sergeant before becoming an intelligence community analyst (approximately 2003-2009). Had not worked in government since 2009 prior to his CIO appointment.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2003-2009","source":null},{"id":20126,"text":"The exact number of Palantir shares Barbaccia owns and their current value is not publicly disclosed with precision. OGE Form 278e should document holdings by value range.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":20127,"text":"Barbaccia's specific role in any procurement decisions involving Palantir since becoming Federal CIO is not documented in public records. Cross-referencing USASpending.gov Palantir awards with procurement offices under his authority could reveal patterns.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":20128,"text":"The nature of Barbaccia's departure from Palantir and any severance, non-disclosure, or non-compete agreements he signed is not public. These agreements could constrain or incentivise his behaviour as Federal CIO.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":20129,"text":"Barbaccia's ethics agreement and recusal commitments regarding Palantir-related matters are not publicly available. Whether he has delegated Palantir-related procurement decisions to subordinates is opaque.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":20130,"text":"Policy directives and procurement guidance issued by the Federal CIO office during Barbaccia's tenure have not been systematically analysed for alignment with Palantir's business interests. Federal Register and CIO.gov records could reveal patterns.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":20131,"text":"Senate confirmation records including transcript of Barbaccia's hearing and written responses regarding his Palantir stock holdings have not been cross-referenced with subsequent procurement decisions.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19838,"text":"TECH FORCE AS PRIVATE SECTOR PIPELINE: Barbaccia's Tech Force initiative works with ~30 private sector companies whose managers can retain stock holdings and connections to their prior employers while serving in government. This institutionalises the same revolving-door dynamic that created Barbaccia's own conflicts, potentially embedding dozens more industry-aligned actors across federal agencies with access to sensitive systems and procurement decisions.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19835,"text":"REVOLVING DOOR — PALANTIR TO FEDERAL IT OVERSIGHT: Barbaccia spent a decade at Palantir building relationships with DoD and law enforcement clients, then took the role of Federal CIO — the position responsible for overseeing all federal technology spending, contracts, and AI policy. Palantir holds $2.5 billion in federal contracts including a $10 billion Army enterprise agreement and the ImmigrationOS system for ICE. The person who helped sell Palantir to the government is now the person responsible for evaluating and approving government technology purchases.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19837,"text":"DATA ACCESS VECTOR: As Federal CIO and named DOGE agent, Barbaccia sits at the intersection of two critical data flows: (1) the DOGE initiative that accessed OPM personnel records of tens of millions of federal employees (ruled unlawful by Judge Cote), and (2) the federal AI/IT infrastructure that determines which companies process government data. His decade at Palantir — a company whose core business is government data integration and analysis — combined with his current position overseeing which companies get access to federal data systems, represents a conflict that extends beyond stock ownership to structural influence over federal data governance.","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19836,"text":"CONCENTRATED PALANTIR INFLUENCE IN WHITE HOUSE: POGO identified at least 12 White House staffers holding Palantir stock, with Barbaccia (CIO), Stephen Miller (Deputy Chief of Staff/immigration policy), Kara Frederick (Miller's senior policy advisor), and Thomas Williams (OMB defence spending director with $2-10M in Palantir stock through wife) representing the highest-concentration cluster. This creates a network where Palantir shareholders shape immigration policy (Miller), oversee defence spending (Williams), set AI/IT policy (Barbaccia), and advise on technology policy (Frederick).","confidence":"inferential","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19829,"text":"OMB spokesperson stated: 'Greg Barbaccia and Tom Williams went through the same process as every OMB employee, supervised by OMB ethics attorneys, to ensure that they are in full compliance with all ethics rules.'","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19819,"text":"Barbaccia also founded and served as managing partner at Argus Vigilance, a company whose details are limited in public records.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19834,"text":"Storebrand Asset Management divested from Palantir due to fears that its work with the IDF risks violating international law. This occurred during the period when former Palantir employees like Barbaccia were taking senior government positions.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19830,"text":"At least 12 Trump White House staffers, including Barbaccia, Stephen Miller ($100,001-$250,000), and Kara Frederick (up to $100,000), disclosed Palantir stock holdings, according to POGO's analysis of financial disclosures.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19821,"text":"As Federal CIO, Barbaccia oversees federal technology spending, IT policy, FITARA compliance, monitoring software for civil servants, and agency IT databases and contracts.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19822,"text":"Barbaccia declared himself 'Chief AI Officer' in addition to Federal CIO, and has influence over federal AI guidance and policy.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19833,"text":"Amnesty International produced a report finding Palantir's work with DHS and ICE presented 'a high risk that Palantir is contributing to serious human rights violations of migrants and asylum-seekers by the U.S. government.' Barbaccia managed Palantir's government account for DoD and law enforcement during the period these contracts were active.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":19816,"text":"Palantir's federal contracts total $2.5 billion since 2009, including $531 million in the last fiscal year. Barbaccia managed government accounts during a key growth period for these contracts.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null},{"id":16405,"text":"Search scope note: No sec filings found for \"Gregory Barbaccia\" in automated database search as of 2026-04-13. This reflects search coverage limits, not confirmed absence from public record.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":null,"source":null}],"connections":[{"id":9809,"relationshipType":"program_lead","description":"Leading the Tech Force initiative, working with approximately 30 private sector companies providing training and managers for government tech modernisation. 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