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.

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A U.S. Military Academy West Point Cadet and a Soldier assigned to 510th Human Resource Company, 10th Division Sustainment Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade, treat a simulated casualty, June 15, 2022, during 510th HR’s medical evacuation training on Fort Drum, New York. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Neysa Canfield, 10th MDSB Public Affairs)

Army looks to advanced tech to modernize its medical capabilities in new strategy

Defense

Lauren Knausenberger, U.S. Air Force chief information officer, greets U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Adam Williams, 52nd Communications Squadron commander, in front of Club Eifel on Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, July 21, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ali Stewart)

Air Force CIO: ‘We’re not waiting’ for JWCC

Defense

A bicyclist rides along a path at Googles Bay View campus in Mountain View, California on June 27, 2022. (Photo by NOAH BERGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Google to create standalone public sector cloud services division

Modernization

Burke Baker, a technical director from the 2nd Audiovisual Squadron, operates a switch board in support of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Onramp 2, Aug. 31, 2020 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez)

Military services, Pentagon CDAO meeting weekly to coordinate AI efforts

AI

Department of Defense, DOD, Pentagon — (DOD / Lisa Ferdinando)

DOD exploring requirements for managed service providers under CMMC

Cyber

AWS’s Teresa Carlson speaks at FedTalks at Night in June 2017. (FedScoop)

Teresa Carlson returns to Microsoft

Tech

Department of the Interior — (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop)

Interior preps cloud acquisition worth up to $1B

Modernization

5G wireless, mobile broadband — (Getty Images)

CISA gives agencies tool to securely embrace 5G technologies

Cyber

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FCC awards $204M IT modernization contract to 14 companies

Modernization