GSA taps Greg Hogan as head of government’s identity proofing service, Login.gov

The General Services Administration has installed Greg Hogan as the new director of Login.gov, the government's identity proofing platform, Nextgov/FCW has learned.

Hogan previously worked as the chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management, an early stronghold for the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency. He replaced the agency’s existing CIO on the second day of President Donald Trump’s second term. Since he left the role in September, Hogan has been working in Trump’s National Design Studio, housed in the White House.

A newcomer to public sector work before last year, Hogan previously worked at startup Comma.ai. He will now be in charge of a government-wide program that agencies use to verify that someone is who they say they are, often via facial recognition. 

The Login.gov website, which allows members of the public to create a single, identity-proofed account and then use it to log in to various government websites, has over 150 million users. Trump appointees have called the identity proofing service critical to their anti-fraud agenda.

The previous director of Login.gov left the post last fall for a job with Microsoft. 

Hogan will be working with the federal CIO, Greg Barbaccia, who is double-hatting as the acting head of TTS in addition to his gig at OMB. Hogan is now detailing into the agency as “acting assistant commissioner,” Barbaccia wrote in an email viewed by Nextgov/FCW.

“[Hogan] will be focused on expanding the number of people and agencies successfully using Login.gov, enhancing the user experience, and improving the cost-effectiveness while continuing to meet the highest expectations for security, privacy and reliability,” wrote Barbaccia. “All with the vision to support Login.gov truly becoming a world-class identity platform recognized beyond the federal government.”

Commercial companies have lobbied in the identity proofing space over the years, pushing their products as alternatives to Login.gov and jockeying to help power the government-run service as contractors behind the scenes.

During Hogan’s time at the government’s HR agency, OPM was sued for its handling of data. 

At the center of one of those lawsuits is a government-wide mass email system set up in the early days of the administration and used to send out an initial delayed resignation offer to federal employees.

Hogan signed off on a privacy impact assessment issued for the government-wide email system after the agency was sued by anonymous federal employees alleging that OPM violated the law by not publishing a PIA before deploying the new system. His signature set the document apart from other PIAs at OPM, which are typically signed by privacy officials at the agency.

A district court judge denied an ask for a temporary restraining order preventing the government from using that system last year, finding that those suing hadn’t proved that they’d suffer irreparable injury without one, or that they had standing to sue.

Another judge did grant a preliminary injunction in a case centered on the access of DOGE associates to OPM agency records. 

At Login.gov, Hogan’s work will have the potential to touch Americans who interact with the government across a swath of programs in 50 federal and state agencies. 

The program is one of the core priorities for GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, which has shed 70% of its staff since Trump took office.

“We are ushering in a new era for the Technology Transformation Services as the government’s premier technology provider,” Barbaccia wrote in his Monday email. “This is about restoring confidence in how government serves the taxpayer, and delivering technology that Americans can take pride in as an expression of the nation’s strength and capability.”