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在转型前，美国人事管理办公室博耶斯 facility 每月约手动处理1万份纸质退休申请
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福克斯新闻数字频道独家探访了宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的前石灰石矿场，这里曾是美国人事管理办公室的退休申请处理中心，当天正是该办公室所称的“最后一个纸质工作日”。
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宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯—— 在地下230多英尺的石灰石矿场深处，特朗普政府周二迎来了联邦退休流程的所谓“纸质最后一天”，福克斯新闻数字频道获得罕见权限，得以进入这座长期保密的宾夕法尼亚州设施。这里存放着数百万份政府档案，曾让退休审批流程困在纸质系统中数十年。
“这是我从未见过的场景，我想这也是大多数人的反应……我认为许多（政府雇员）一直被一个不允许创新、不允许冒险的系统束缚着，”美国人事管理办公室主任斯科特·库珀在接受福克斯新闻数字频道专访时表示。
“我做的与前任唯一不同的地方，就是我们允许员工真正去解决那些我明知亟待解决的问题，”他补充道。
联邦人力资源办公室公开全面保密协议计划，旨在遏制政府泄密
- 宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山公司仓库里堆积如山的纸质文件。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山公司仓库里堆积如山的纸质文件。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山公司仓库里堆积如山的纸质文件。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
- 宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山公司仓库里堆积如山的纸质文件。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
数十年来，退休申请需在联邦机构间纸质邮寄，最终送达博耶斯的人事管理办公室退休运营中心。在这里，工作人员每月手动处理约1万份退休申请，仓库内存放着超过4亿份纸质档案。人事管理办公室庆祝告别纸质系统，转向数字化记录，并表示将销毁滞留在矿场的数百万份文件。
人事管理办公室是联邦政府的人力资源部门，负责监管影响数百万文职联邦雇员和退休人员的政策、福利和人事系统。
库珀表示，拜登政府和往届官员都曾讨论过在线退休申请的现代化改造，但这项努力从未取得进展。
“在线退休申请只是一个想法，”他说，“我认为问题在于它从未获得过动力。”
美国联邦退休系统自上世纪80年代启用以来，一直以纸质流程为主。
多年来，官员们发起了多次现代化尝试，包括试点项目和推动退休申请数字化的努力。尽管推出了这些举措，政府仍依赖纸质流程，直到特朗普政府在马斯克公开批评该系统后，加快了人事管理办公室在线退休申请的推广。
去年，埃隆·马斯克揭露了这个地下作业场所的存在，称其“如同时间穿越现场”，使其成为美国政府官僚主义的全国性象征，当时他正在椭圆形办公室。
“现在人们可以想退休就退休，不用再等六个月让文件被运进矿场，”马斯克独家告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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“这是我从未见过的场景，我想这也是大多数人的反应……我认为许多（政府雇员）一直被一个不允许创新、不允许冒险的系统束缚着，”库珀说道。（福克斯新闻数字频道）
库珀表示，马斯克和美国首席设计官乔·盖比亚都应获得“极高的赞誉”。
“对我而言，这是一个绝佳的例子，体现了埃隆和狗狗币团队所做工作的更深层次意义：从零开始重新思考流程，在解决方案上发挥创造力，并认识到，如果最终想要提高政府效率，就必须做出实质性改变，”库珀说。
铁山公司为众多博物馆、档案馆、文化机构和政府部门提供安全档案存储服务。福克斯新闻数字频道了解到，该公司的馆藏包括盖蒂图片社、哥伦比亚广播公司、迪士尼的资料，宾夕法尼亚州尚克斯维尔附近的93号航班国家纪念公园相关文物，以及与大屠杀相关的藏品。
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宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山矿场。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
“我们有一支优秀的团队负责安保工作，显然我们这里还有其他高度机密的机构。有不少所谓的‘三字母机构’也在这里存放档案，”库珀说。
当被问及纸质档案可能带来的安全隐患时，库珀表示：“显然，放弃纸质文件改用电子记录的好处，远远超过我们（从安全角度）可能面临的任何潜在风险。”
库珀认为，政府创新是降低纳税人成本的关键。
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宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山公司内的安全标识。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
“我认为总统已经并告诉我们，要将你所拥有的创新和创造性思维技能应用于政府现代化改造，如果我们做到这一点，不仅能提升服务质量，还能提高效率，”库珀说。
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宾夕法尼亚州博耶斯的铁山公司。（阿什利·J·迪梅拉/福克斯新闻数字频道）
“这就是我们能够为美国民众提供更多服务，而不必不断伸手向国会索要更多资金的方式。”
阿什利·J·迪梅拉为福克斯新闻数字频道报道政治新闻。
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the secretive mine DOGE helped drag out of a decades-old bureaucratic black hole
July 1, 2026 10:16am EDT / Fox News
OPM’s Boyers facility manually processed around 10,000 paper retirement applications each month for decades before the switch
By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News
Fox News Digital got an exclusive look inside the former limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, that houses the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s retirement processing center on what OPM called its “last day of paperwork.”
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BOYERS, Pa. —Deep inside a limestone mine more than 230 feet underground, the Trump administration marked what it called the “Last Day of Paper” for federal retirements Tuesday, giving Fox News Digital rare access to the long-secretive Pennsylvania facility where millions of government records helped keep the retirement process trapped in an analog system for decades.
“It was unlike anything I’d ever seen before, which I think is the reaction that I generally hear from lots of people… I believe that many [government employees] have just been constrained by a system that does not allow innovation and does not allow some element of risk-taking,” U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview.
“The only thing I did that was different than any other predecessor was we gave people permission to actually solve the problems that I knew needed to be solved,” he continued.
FEDERAL HR OFFICE PULLS BACK CURTAIN ON SWEEPING NDA PLAN AIMED AT CURBING GOVERNMENT LEAKS
- Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
- Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
- Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
- Piles of paperwork at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
For decades, retirement applications were physically mailed between federal agencies before arriving at OPM’s Retirement Operations Center in Boyers, where workers manually processed roughly 10,000 retirements each month and houses over 400 million paper records. OPM celebrated moving from the paper system to digitized records, explaining the millions of documents languishing in the mine will be shredded.
OPM functions as the federal government’s human resources department, overseeing the policies, benefits and personnel systems that affect millions of civilian federal employees and retirees.
Kupor said the Biden administration and previous officials had discussed modernizing the online retirement application, but the effort never gained momentum.
“The idea of the online retirement application was an idea,” he said. “I think what happened was it never got traction.”
The federal retirement system has relied on a largely paper-based process since it opened in the 1980s.
Over the years, officials launched multiple modernization efforts, including pilot programs and attempts to digitize retirement applications. Despite those initiatives, the government remained dependent on paper until the Trump administration accelerated adoption of OPM’s Online Retirement Application following Musk’s public criticism of the system.
The underground operation became a national symbol of government bureaucracy after Elon Musk revealed its existence last year, calling it “like a time warp,” while in the Oval Office.
“Now people can retire as soon as they want, instead of waiting 6 months for paper to be carried into a mine,” Musk exclusively told Fox News Digital.
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“It was unlike anything I’d ever seen before, which I think is the reaction that I generally hear from lots of people… I believe that many [government employees] have just been constrained by a system that does not allow innovation and does not allow some element of risk-taking,” said Kupor.(Fox News Digital)
Kupor shared that both Musk and U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia deserve an “enormous amount of credit.”
“It’s a great example to me of the more meta level of what Elon and the DOGE team was doing, which is rethink processes from ground zero, be creative in terms of what the solutions are and recognize that, look, you have to actually make significant change if you want to ultimately drive efficiency in the government,” said Kupor.
Iron Mountain provides secure archival storage for numerous museums, archives, cultural institutions and government agencies. Its holdings include materials for Getty Images, CBS, Disney, artifacts related to the Flight 93 National Memorial—near Shanksville, Pennsylvania—and Holocaust-related collections, Fox News Digital learned.
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Iron Mountain Mine in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
“We have a great team who does a lot of security, and obviously we’re in a building here with other very highly secure agencies. There’s a number of kind of three-letter agencies who also have records here,” said Kupor.
“I think by far the benefits of obviously getting off paper going to electronic records. Way outweigh any potential risks we might have [from a security perspective],” said Kupor when asked about any security concerns the physical copies presented.
Kupor argued that government innovation is key to reducing costs for taxpayers.
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Safety sign at Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
“I think the president has done and told us is take the skills that you have around innovation and creative thinking and apply that to modernization for the government and if we do that, we’ll not only improve the quality of service, but that is where we get efficiency,” said Kupor.
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Iron Mountain in Boyers, PA.(Ashley J. DiMella / Fox News Digital)
“That’s how we actually deliver more for the American people without constantly going to have to go back to the till and ask Congress for more money.”
Ashley J. DiMella reports on politics for Fox News Digital.
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