Is Musk using Starlink to establish a backchannel and secret communication system to circumvent detection? There is no other reason to install at least one Starlink transceiver on the roof of the GSA building and string wires through a window on the top floor. The fact that Must even has a private global satellite system should concern Americans.
As it is, Musk has placed his Technocrats in high-level positions in the Agency: the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) is currently led by Thomas Shedd. Shedd, a former Tesla engineer and Silicon Valley executive, was appointed as the director of TTS and also serves as deputy commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) within GSA.
It gets worse: Shedd reports to another Technocrat, Stephen Ehikian, Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
Who is Ehikian?
He oversees the GSA’s nationwide real estate portfolio of over 360 million rentable square feet, manages more than $110 billion in federal contracts, and leads the delivery of technology services across dozens of federal agencies.
Ehikian is a serial entrepreneur in the software industry in Silicon Valley. He successfully built and sold two companies—Airkit and RelateIQ—to Salesforce. At Salesforce, he served as Vice President of AI Products, focusing on next-generation technology solutions.
Nothing to see here. Move along. It’s just Technocrats taking over the government. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof, over the ledge and into the administrator’s window one floor below.
It didn’t take long for the employee — an IT specialist — to figure out the device was a transceiver that communicates with Elon Musk’s vast and private Starlink satellite network. Concerned that the equipment violated federal laws designed to protect public data, staffers reported the discovery to superiors and the agency’s internal watchdog.
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