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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Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 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 via AFP)

Judge denies OPM’s motion to dismiss DOGE ‘data disclosure’ case

Cyber

The Microsoft logo is seen at an Experience Center on Fifth Avenue on April 3, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Federal CIO calls for agencies to inventory licenses with ‘top 5 software vendors’

Acquisition

WOODLAWN, MARYLAND – MARCH 19: A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced plans to eliminate thousands of agency positions as well as numerous regional and local Social Security offices. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Judge blocks DOGE access to Social Security systems, calls for deletion of data

Transition

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an education event in the East Room of the White house in Washington, DC, March 20, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Trump executive order consolidates federal IT contracting under GSA

Transition

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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

Transition

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

Tech

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’

Tech

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

Tech