Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Scoop News Group’s editorial brands. He oversees operations, strategy and growth of SNG’s award-winning tech publications, FedScoop, StateScoop, CyberScoop, EdScoop and DefenseScoop.

After earning his journalism degree at Virginia Tech and winning the school’s Excellence in Print Journalism award, Billy received his master’s degree from New York University in magazine writing while interning at publications like Rolling Stone.

Reach him at billy.mitchell@scoopnewsgroup.com.

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An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Lawyer linked to DOGE is defending OPM mass email system lawsuit

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WASHINGTON D.C., Aug. 28 2022 — A sign outside the Department of Energy building on Independence Ave SW. (Image credit: John Hewitt Jones)

Energy Department taps Twitter, Google alum as CIO

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Workday’s Lynn Martin and Carl Eschenbach lead a discussion at the FedScoop Federal Forum. (FedScoop)

Workday eyes federal expansion amid an administration that wants ‘to do things differently’

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Sen. Jon Curtis, R-Utah, speaks on a fireside chat at an event sponsored by Workday. (FedScoop photo)

Ahead of possible shutdown, Sen. John Curtis calls on Congress to innovate ‘broken’ budget process

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A view of Department of Energy headquarters on Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Dawn Zimmer returns to acting Energy CIO after SpaceX engineer’s short tenure

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A view of a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by Valerie Macon /AFP via Getty Images)

SSA bans news websites on agency devices

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Office of Personnel Management, OPM — OPM’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. (Billy Mitchell)

OPM quietly swapped out privacy assessment for governmentwide email system central to ongoing litigation

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The General Services Administration (GSA) building is pictured in Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 2016. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

GSA tells agencies to terminate contracts with top-10 consulting firms

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