Taking over for Jennifer Wendel, Minor has been at the health department for months but his title wasn’t previously clear.

Sen. Jacky Rosen is asking HHS Secretary Kennedy to provide information about staffing levels in department CIO offices and IT shops.

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration who spoke to FedScoop believe that information from a recent “data call” on critical and essential systems informed staff reductions.

A lawsuit seeking relief from DOGE’s accessing of PII at the agencies can move forward on claims that the Administrative Procedure Act may have been violated.

When combined with retirements and deferred resignation, HHS’s workforce is set to go from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees.

Federal agency responses included giving workers a template and warning to write responses as if they’re going to “be read by malign foreign actors.”

The state attorneys general who sought the temporary restraining order failed to demonstrate irreparable harm, the judge ruled.

The three health agencies were directed to restore those websites as they were Jan. 30 by the end of the day Tuesday.

Installing a CAIO, CTO and CDO comes after a reshuffle of the agency’s technology and cyber work in July.

Merritt was most recently the chief information officer of the intelligence community. Her selection follows the installation of a permanent HHS CIO.