Defense Secretary Pete Hegses ordered all civilian Pentagon employees to respond to an Office of Human Resources Management (OPM) email asking them to know what they had accomplished the previous week.
Hegseth's directive comes after Pentagon officials previously instructed Pentagon employees not to respond on February 22 to “What did you do last week?” The email, led by Doge Chief Elon Musk, is surrounding clear concerns that categorized information will be shared.
“Following a review of the Pentagon procedure and consultations with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), I am directing each member of the department's private worker to provide five bullets to supervisors last week on what they accomplished in a particular job,” read Hegses' latest guidance. Released by the Pentagon on monday.
“All DOD civilians will receive emails relating to the next steps taken to comply with this initiative,” the Secretary of Defense message continued. “These reports will be integrated internally within the department to comply with the OPM Directive.”
Another note released by the Pentagon tells DOD employees to exclude “classification or confidential information” in their reply emails.
The memo dated February 27 also noted that “no compliance could lead to further reviews.”
According to the Pentagon, workers will become 48-hour employees without access to email after regaining access.
Hegseth's order comes as federal workers began receiving the second version of the Musk-Ordered OPM email, which has sparked rage among some government officials.
Musk claims that “If you fail to respond for the second time, you will be finished.”
Billionaire Doge Head previously threatened that his employee's response to a February 22 email would be taken as a resignation.
The email campaign is part of masks' efforts to reduce government spending.
“It's a really easy task,” Hegses said in a video posted on social media Sunday, reflecting the controversial emails of SpaceX and Tesla founders.
“As Elon said, as the president admitted at the first cabinet meeting, it's just a pulse check – 'Are you there?' – turning civilians into DoD,” the Secretary of Defense added.
The White House said last week that more than a million federal workers responded to the first Doge-Ordered email.
