A message from @SecDef on compliance with OPM’s “What You Did Last Week” email directive. pic.twitter.com/ByKyYIYFJV
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) March 2, 2025
Hey everybody, here at the Defense Department, we’ve got a lot of civilian patriots who dedicate themselves to defending this nation while working here at the Department of Defense. And a lot of them, many of them, most of them, are critical to our national security. And as we work to restore focus on DOD’s core warfighting mission under President Trump’s leadership, we recognize that we cannot accomplish that mission without the strong and important contributions of our civilian workforce. But it’s a really big workforce as well, which we recognize. Now, on February 22nd of this year, OPM sent an email to all federal civilians asking them to provide, you remember this, approximately five bullets of what they did last week, describing their accomplishments. Well, the Department of Defense employees received direction to, at first, just initially pause responding to this request to OPM, just to pause.
Now, as we said, following a review of Pentagon procedures and consultation with the Office of Personal Management, because we do, we work on topics of national security, of sensitivity, of classification, we needed to be careful on that front, I am now directing each member of the department’s civilian workforce, just civilian, to provide those five bullets on what they accomplished in their specific jobs last week to reply to that email and CC their immediate supervisor. It’s a simple task, really, as Elon said, as the president recognized in our first cabinet meeting, just a pulse check. Are you there? Out to DOD civilians. Now, all those DOD civilians will receive an email outlining the next steps, we’ll get that email soon, that they need to take in order to comply with this initiative, and then the reports will be consolidated internally within the department to comply with the OPM directive. It’s really simple and straightforward, the directive to civilian employees will be clear, reply to the email, CC your supervisor, provide, without any classified or sensitive information, basic topics of what you did last week, and that we will take that into consideration as we make sure we’re being as focused and as tailored as possible in looking at how we streamline our workforce to both meet the fiscal demands at the moment, but also ensure we have the strongest, most viable fighting force in the world. Thanks.
- So pleased with Sec. Hegsmith. These check-ins are great and he’s setting the new bar for all Secretaries and Directors within our government. Elon, you’re a fair man. Most wouldn’t have given them a second chance. Keep up the great work!
- The DoD’s March 1 memo mandates all civilian employees submit weekly accomplishment reports via email, requiring five bullet points on achievements supporting Pentagon priorities. Responses must exclude classified info, include supervisors, and are subject to FOIA—non-compliance risks disciplinary action. This follows Elon Musk’s directive to expose bureaucratic bloat, with Trump backing it as a litmus test for federal productivity. While agencies initially scrambled to ignore the order, DoD’s latest guidance forces compliance, reflecting Musk’s push to cut through D.C.’s culture of unaccountability. Employees without email access have 48 hours to respond post-return.
- Hegseth’s directive for five bullets from the civilian workforce is a sharp move—keeps everyone on their toes and proves who’s actually grinding. Smart way to sync with OPM and cut the fat.
- JUST. RESOND. TO. A. SIMPLE. EMAIL. Anyone who voices outrage over the email in the dept of defense should be let go just for being weak minded. No room for that in the defense dept.
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