Dozens of USDs are reduced last week, impact teams such as product management, design and preparation. Kamnes and other sources told Wired that he was the only person from the USDS engineering team to be fired. He and others guess that he was targeted because he had publicly criticized DOGE in the weeks before the USDS decline. DOGE does not return the comment on his removal.
While all major information technology systems have to be protected against hacked threats, Kamnes says the most urgent projects working on VA and included sensitive personal data of the veterans, so it can only be in the protection areas. Save and use the system. Stronger controls to limit what information can access. Both understanding how data flows through a system and limiting access to reducing the risk of network influence and their own threats have appeared as key security priorities for each organization.
“My biggest concern in VA’s time on personal health data and personal information, phi and PII, I tried to deal with in places where they weren’t supposed to,” says Kamns. “And in my opinion, our access control, while it was good, was not strong enough to be, I don’t think we enough to control what data to access, as much as We had enough granulation. ” He was advancing to address these concerns and is now at risk of drowning.
The effects of reduction on VA as well as USDS reduction that will also affect the veterans agency are still observed. But in addition to potential initiatives to improve digital security, this reduction may affect the effectiveness and reliability of the digital protection currently present.
Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington and Vice President of the Senate Committee, hosted a virtual press conference with former federal workers from his state, which had recently ended. One, Rafael Garcia, is a disabled army veteran who has worked as a VA management analyst.
“I coordinated access to the IT system so that each team member has the right tools,” Garcia said at the event. “I have maintained critical adaptation and operational control while maintaining a constant relationship with stakeholders throughout the country,” he said. . “
On his own, Kamnesse, who spent his work in the private sector before USD, says he loves the job of the government and it would be difficult to find another job as a reward.
“There were interviews that we were all in touch with DOGE the day after the inauguration,” he says. “In my property, one of them asked me to describe what I was doing in VA and then I said something like it,” If you do all the things, why don’t you work in the private sector. Can you do twice a lot of money? And I said, “because I don’t care about money. I care about serving the veterans.
“I think the fact that someone asked me at all is really saying.”
