SpaceX alum tapped as Interior CIO

About a month after the department moved to dismiss several top executives at the Interior Department following their objections to giving the Department of Government Efficiency access to a federal personnel and payroll system, the Interior Department has tapped a SpaceX alum, Paul McInerny, to lead the department’s technology. 

The new chief information officer worked at billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX for several years, most recently as a senior manager for software automation tools, a role he left in 2020 to work at a lawn care startup, according to his LinkedIn and previous media coverage. McInerny has never worked in the government before. 

Interior is the latest agency to undergo leadership turnover in its tech shop since President Donald Trump took office.

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