Workers say that health and humanitarian systems are at risk of collapse

One team cleared of HHS managed more than a hundred contracts of hundreds of millions of dollars, including decisive cybersecurity licenses. It also managed to renew the contracts of hundreds of specialized contractors who are carrying out critical tasks for the department, including dozens of cybersecurity contractors working in Computer Security Accidents Response Center (CSIRC)The main component of the General Cyber ​​Security Program, which is supervised by the chief information security official.

While all HHS agencies have their electronic security and their information technology teams, CSIRC is the only one that has a vision over the entire network of the section. This center, based in Atlanta, monitors the entire HHS network, and is assigned to prevent cybersecurity, discover, report and respond to HHS.

The source says: “It is the center of the nerves of the Ministry.” “They have direct links with DHS, Cisa, Defense Health Agency and the intelligence community.”

Contractors provide coverage around the clock on three transformations for eight hours each day, and they monitor the network for any possible interruption or attacks from the inside or outside the network. These contracts are scheduled to end on June 21; While there is time to renew them, it is not clear who is authorized to do this or know how, because the entire office that oversees the process is no longer working in HHS.

In addition to the threat is the decision of the Public Service Management to end the rental contract for CSIRC in Atlanta, as of December 31, 2025.

Many cyber security and monitoring tools that contractors use to monitor networks due to renewal in the coming months.

If the situation is not addressed, “soon, the department will be completely open to external actors to reach the largest databases in the world in which all our general health information has, and the source also claims the opinions of sources that spoke about other sources that spoke to WIRED.

In the weeks before RIF, some administrative employees had interactions with Elon Musk clients as called government competencies (DOGE), including Clark MinorPalantir work engineer for more than a decade and recently installed as head of information in the department.

One of the employees was explaining the work they did in OCIO, they said, they felt that they were a minor – Biography online It does not explain any experience in the federal government – which was flooded by HHS, an agency that represents more than a quarter of federal spending in 2024 and consists of countless offices, employees and employees.

Minor did not provide guidelines for the remaining HHS employees on the transition, according to two sources still in the agency.

Minor did not respond to a request from Wire.

Some internal systems are already collapsing, according to the sources that are still working in HHS. One of the employees, who is easy to travel to HHS employees, says RIF “re -travel to the operations that were present before the first electronic travel system contract in 2004.”