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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U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Federal employees re-up lawsuit against OPM’s use of mass email server

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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)

Energy CIO replaced with SpaceX engineer as DOGE probes department’s systems

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The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is seen on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

OPM calls to dismiss email server lawsuit, issues missing privacy assessment

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Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and supporters are protesting against Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids who have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Plaintiffs call for temporary restraining order in OPM email server lawsuit

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A screenshot of the first OPM test email sent to employees across the federal government Jan. 24.

Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure

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The White House — (Getty Images)

Greg Barbaccia picked as Trump’s federal CIO

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: U.S. Joe Biden welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump to the White House ahead of his inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

CIOs of USDA, USAID named agency leaders until Trump picks enter office

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DHS Department of Homeland Security — (U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

New DHS AI directive sets prohibited uses, expands acquisition governance

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first ever Open AI DevDay conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

OpenAI’s GPT-4o gets green light for top secret use in Microsoft’s Azure cloud

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