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Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken is the managing editor of FedScoop and CyberScoop, overseeing coverage of federal government technology policy and cybersecurity.

Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt was a senior editor at Morning Consult, leading data-driven coverage of tech, finance, health and energy. He previously worked in various editorial roles at The Baltimore Sun and the Arizona Daily Star.

You can reach him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.

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Protesters rally outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Feb. 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

OPM outlines merit hiring plan, new SES process ahead of hiring freeze end

Workforce

Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks on a panel titled “Power, Purpose, and the New American Century” at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Fannie Mae partners with Palantir on mortgage fraud detection tech

Tech

An exterior of one of two Department of Treasury Bureau of Fiscal Services on Feb. 12, 2025 in Parkersburg, W.Va. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Judge OKs DOGE access to Treasury payment systems

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SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

DOGE receipts for SBA fall billions short of administrator’s cost-savings claim

Federal

A CBP Border Patrol vehicle drives past recently installed concertina wire on a section of border wall fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana in San Diego on April 24, 2025. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate border technology bill would empower CBP innovation team

Policy

A view of the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is pictured in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

HUD picks former EV engineering exec Eric Sidle as CIO

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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins gives opening remarks at a roundtable with the SEC’s Crypto Task Force at agency headquarters on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SEC chair says DOGE found $90M in cost savings, but public receipts don’t add up

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Former Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Internal Revenue Service commissioner, speaks during a Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill on May 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Billy Long wants IRS to take ‘clues from private sector’ on IT modernization

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