An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal represents Elon Musk’s so -called Task Force from the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to various sources.

Government records revised by Wired show that Rajpal has working email addresses with DoE and the NOAA. The Doge address, like others of the agency, is in a format that links it to the executive office of the president. Rajpal also appears in the NOAA Employee Guide directed in public.

According to sources familiar with the situation, Noaa employees were ordered on Wednesday to grant the Rajpal editor access to all NOAA Google websites about the instructions of acting trade secretary, Jeremy Pelter, at the end of the business.

A NOAA employee with more than 40 years of service that led the agency’s work on diversity, fairness, inclusion and accessibility was placed on administrative leave on Tuesday three weeks before their scheduled retirement. This person did not respond to a request for comment.

Axios reported on Tuesday that DOE workers entered noaa facilities in Maryland on Tuesday to seek “access to IT systems”. A source that was cheated confirmed this.

While Rajpal’s online presence has recently been largely wiped out, Wired copies of Résumés and, through public databases, could obtain other biographical information. They show that, as he refers to himself, Nik is about 30 and that he studied computer science and history at the UC Berkeley. Rajpal worked on Twitter before acquiring Elon Musk, and previously redesigned the work of a Tesla console.

As an undergraduate student, Rajpal was the leader of a Libertarian-in line with the student group that advocated for ‘minimal government, free markets, sound money, non-intervention and maximum individual freedom.’ In 2014, he offered a 10-minute presentation on Bitcoin to Viget, the company he started. A walk -in account that linked to his personal website “Read the articles I read” shows articles by Richard Hanania, Quillette and Zero Hedge, as well as publications such as the Financial Times and Bloomberg.

Nothing in his background indicates any special expertise that is relevant to his new role. The NOAA is a non -partial scientific agency that monitors and modeles the oceans and atmosphere with the aim of predicting changes in climate and again; The research and technology underlies everything, from weather reports to hurricane modeling and fisheries management to grain forecasts of the long -term climate change.

The agency has long been a target of conservatives; The policy of the Project 2025 asks that it be broken up and that the work of the National Weather Service – which sits within NOAA – is largely privatized.

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Rajpal did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Noaa made a request to the Department of Trade, including it. Trade did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor the White House.

According to Wired’s sources and published reports, doge workers took over the most important government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA) that they also played a key role in the blocking of HIV and AIDS – Relief that the administration is exempt from cutting foreign aid from achieving recipients as part of Musk and President Donald Trump’s purification of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Under the provisions of an executive order signed by Trump, Doge has access to all unclassified systems, which give its representatives an extraordinary series on sensitive government systems containing, among other things, the personal information of ten millions of citizens contains information on businesses. One of the Doge worker, as Wired reported, has full access to the code of a treasury division system that controls the vast majority of the trillions of dollars’ payments made by the federal government each year.