Archive profile summary
Project 2025’s advance personnel database, created to collect resumes, identify prospective appointees and support vetting before a future conservative administration took office.
Why this entry is in the archive
Makes personnel recruitment and vetting a formal, reusable transition capability rather than an ad hoc post-election process.
Why it is significant
The database made presidential personnel recruitment a formal pre-election project rather than a process beginning only after an election victory.
Former White House personnel director John McEntee joined Project 2025 as a senior adviser when the database launched.
Evidence gap
There is no complete public list showing which second-administration officials, if any, entered government through this database.
Evidence limits
A resume appearing in a database would not itself prove Heritage or Project 2025 selected the eventual appointee.
Timeline
- Project 2025 personnel database launches
Project 2025 formalizes advance recruitment and vetting through a Presidential Personnel Database; John McEntee joins as a senior adviser.
- Project 2025 adds personnel and training infrastructure
The Presidential Personnel Database and Presidential Administration Academy formalize recruitment, vetting and training before a future administration takes office.
Project 2025 · Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy · John McEntee · Troup Hemenway
Relationship records
Project 2025 → Project 2025 Presidential Personnel Database
Personnel database was one of Project 2025's four published pillars · 2023
Evidence status: documented