Riley Sennott, 26, is listed as a “senior advisor” in an internal NASA directory, similar to the nebulous titles given to some DOGE staff in other agencies. His name and involvement with DOGE have not been previously reported.
Like many other DOGE workers, he deleted his LinkedIn profile and made his X account private in recent months. However, Sennott did not make the Google Calendar linked to his personal email address private.
Anyone with the address could see every appointment Sennott had on the calendar going back to 2016. On January 6, for example, the calendar included a 15-minute event titled “Riley Sennott and DOGE Recruiting.” The invite came from a Gmail address that DOGE appeared to be using for recruiting.
A calendar appointment from 2023 noted that Sennott “is currently working with a non-profit team in Ukraine to efficiently deliver aid and support evacuations.” The blurb said that Sennott studied symbolic systems and environmental studies in college, “briefly dabbled in consulting,” and has an “entrepreneurial spirit.” His calendar also showed several events related to an internship at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2021.
“The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has arrived onsite at the agency. We anticipate that they will start reviewing our contracts to find efficiencies,” the email reads, according to a copy reviewed by BI.
Semi-Related:
Kathy Lueders used to be a high up at NASA.
She personally chose to make Starship HLS variant be the thing that delivers Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-nasa-picks-spacex-to-land-next-americans-on-moon/
She also wildly misrepresented SpaceX’s capabilities and rigged the ‘request for proposal’ process heavily in favor of SpaceX a few years later.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAEYtaB3R7Y
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NSZlZegPnl4
… And now she works for SpaceX.
https://www.space.com/spacex-hires-nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-kathy-lueders
It’s basically a comedic parody of the kind of regulatory capture process, the incestuous relationship of people jumping between the private and government sides of a public/private partnership… and its all right in the open, actually real.
This kind of shit is the actual deep state, the actual unelected, quid pro quo, ‘subject matter expert’ asshats that cause waste fraud and abuse.
BO and dynetics proposals also weren’t great. The path to reusability was really fishy.