TTS director tapped to serve as Labor CIO

A longtime Tesla engineer and head of a General Services Administration's tech arm, the Technology Transformation Services, is now also in charge of the Labor Department’s technology. 

Thomas Shedd has been at GSA since the start of the current Trump administration, where he called TTS staff “a key source of technical talent,” only for the agency to later shutter an entire government tech consultancy under its purview, 18F. He is also the deputy commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service.

Late last week, Shedd started working as the chief information officer at Labor as well, several sources confirmed to Nextgov/FCW. It’s not clear if he is a new permanent CIO or in the role in an acting capacity. 

Shedd is also staying on at GSA, according to an agency spokesperson, meaning that he’s now working at two agencies in two separate roles.

At Labor, Shedd will oversee technology and data across 27 agencies within the department, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The office has also played a key role in expanding digital identity verification across the unemployment insurance system nationwide, particularly via Login.gov, a service housed in TTS that Shedd himself has called key to the administration’s anti-fraud efforts. 

Other new agency tech executives named so far during Trump 2.0 include an associate of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency at the Energy Department; a former employee of startup Comma.ai at the Office of Personnel Management; and an intelligence community and Marine Corps alum at the Department of Homeland Security.

Last month, the Trump administration asked agencies to make CIO roles that were previously reserved for career staff open to political appointees.

Louis Charlier is still listed as the current CIO on the Labor website, although his LinkedIn lists him as newly retired. The department’s CIO prior to that, Gundeep Ahluwalia, held the role for about eight years before departing in August 2024.

Since the start of this administration, reports that affiliates of DOGE have been accessing sensitive government information and systems have sparked concern, lawsuits and even resignations from career technologists in government. At GSA, one longtime employee quit rather than give Shedd access to the government’s recently-defunct texting platform called Notify.gov.

The Department of Labor did not respond to a request for comment.

GovExec senior correspondent Eric Katz contributed to this reporting.