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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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Matt Donovan, DOD, Pentagon — Matt Donovan, then-U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee major policy director, and his team visit the 52nd Maintenance Squadron to listen to their concerns about the challenges in their unit and the maintainer career field at large, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, March 17, 2017. (Air Force / Senior Airman Joshua R. M. Dewberry)

Air Force launches digital-focused business plan

Defense

coding worker workforce cyber code — (Getty Images)

More than 1,500 feds applied for first Cyber Reskilling Academy cohort

Tech

John Sherman, chief information officer of the intelligence community, leads off day two of the 2018 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, Aug. 14, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska. Sherman provided an update on efforts to implement a common intelligence community desktop environment. (Photo by Brian Murphy/DIA)

Goals are clear for ‘second epoch’ of ICITE, intel community CIO says

Tech

Brigadier General Dennis A. Crall speaks to Marines during the 8412 Symposium at the Davis Conference Center aboard MacDill Air Force Base Tampa, Florida, Aug. 23, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jack A. E. Rigsby)

DOD needs to staff up to hire Cyber Excepted Service personnel, officials say

Defense

CIO Dana Deasy, Pentagon, DOD — Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan formally, swears-in Mr. Dana Deasy as the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, June 15, 2018 at the Pentagon. (DoD photo / U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Angelita M. Lawrence)

JEDI protests are holding back DOD’s vision for enterprise cloud, CIO Deasy says

Defense

A C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 701st Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., taxis out during Exercise Patriot Sands, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., Feb. 23, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr.)

VMD Corp scores $77M contract to support Air Force IT

Defense

(DoD / U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann / Flickr)

JEDI lawsuit paused as DOD investigates ‘new information’ on conflicts of interest

Defense

Microsoft, Microsoft Azure — (Getty Images)

Microsoft could score billions under recent DOD deals

Defense

DISA Cloud Symposium — Nearly 1,000 information technology experts from all facets of the Department of Defense, to include military departments, combatant commands, and DoD agencies, met at the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) first Cloud Symposium, Dec. 12, 2017. (photo by Kevin Headtke)

Company protests its way onto $7.5B DISA IT engineering contract

Defense