U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has directed all department civilian employees to respond to emails from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to list their achievements in the past week.

Concerns about classified material being sent in bulleted lists was part of the pushback from agency heads against the DOGE directive. They were also concerned about how the information would be

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all civilian Pentagon employees to respond to an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) email demanding to know what they accomplished the week prior. Hegseth’s directive comes after Pentagon officials previously instructed Department of Defense employees not to respond to a Feb.