This depends on their role. That more applies to people involved in contract decisions and execution (the legal/financial parts, not the doing the technical work part). For programmers, they can move back and forth relatively freely, but should go through their agency's legal office to be certain.

Right, well ... the DOGE staffers (which assumes they are actually employed) seem to be primarily focused on contract decisions and execution.

If they are just data analysis and gathering, that's not exactly contract negotiation.

> they are just data analysis and gathering

They are not. They de facto cancelled contracts while rooting around at the Treasury. Given the lack of transparency at DOGE, it’s unclear how the front-line bros can claim they were following official instructions versus making calls on their own.

Does that also applied to all of the employees that have been DOGEd? For example, would someone that just got fired from NOAA need a cooling off period before getting hired at AccuWeather? That seems to be the MAGA solution for all of the NOAA employees.

Not necessarily, see my other comment. If they were involved in, say, a contract selection to integrate with AccuWeather's other data sources and models then they could be restricted from working at AccuWeather or in what they can do at AccuWeather. It looks like a quid pro quo if you're involved in contract selection and get hired by that same company. Introducing the delay reduces that appearance, it also makes a real quid pro quo less likely.

If they were a meteorologist conducting analysis and improving models, they could get hired on without difficulty. If they were the developer tasked with doing that integration after the contract was awarded, it also shouldn't be an issue to get hired by AccuWeather.