He’ll be in charge of overseeing, managing and setting policy for the federal government’s technology. From the perch in the Office of Management and Budget, the OFCIO also has a role to play in developing the IT budget sent to Congress.
Most recently, Barbaccia was the chief information security officer at Theorem, a machine-learning enabled asset manager, according to his LinkedIn, where he posted about his new role Friday. Pagaya Technologies Ltd. agreed to buy the company in July, per Bloomberg.
Before that, Barbaccia worked at Palantir for a decade. He’s also done a short stint at a blockchain intelligence platform, Elementus.
Barbaccia is a former intelligence sergeant with the U.S. Army and former IC intelligence analyst, according to his LinkedIn, but has not formerly been a CIO in a government agency or worked in the government since 2009.
The first Trump administration’s CIO, Suzette Kent, had similarly spent most of her time in the private sector when Trump tapped her for the role in 2018, well into his first administration.
Barbaccia joins a list of other Trump appointees with backgrounds from tech and the software industry. Trump has tapped Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself to lead a government streamlining effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
With DOGE located in the Office of Management ..
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