The votes are in for the 2025 FedScoop.

See the winners!

Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken is the editor in chief of FedScoop. Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt worked in various editing, reporting and digital roles at Morning Consult, The Baltimore Sun and the Arizona Daily Star. You can reach him on Signal at MattBracken.33 or email him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.

Articles by Author

A sign is displayed outside of an U.S. Department of Agriculture building on May 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

USDA nominee for rural development eyes cyber, IT assists

Cyber

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., points to quotes from Meta employees while presiding over a hearing about artificial intelligence generative models training on copyrighted works in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bipartisan Senate bill calls for agencies to report AI-related job cuts

AI

A view of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 10, 2025. (Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

CFPB’s cybersecurity program ‘not effective’ after staff cuts, watchdog says

Cyber

Police in riot gear and Customs and Border Protection agents stand outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Santa Ana Field Office as protesters gather after reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Santa Ana, Calif., on June 9, 2025. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS seeks vast expansion of biometrics collection for immigration benefits

Tech

Navajo Indians line up in their vehicles on May 21, 2020, to collect water and supplies from a distribution point as the COVID-19 virus spreads through the Navajo Nation, in Monument Valley at the Utah and Arizona border. (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

IHS has delivered billions in water and waste projects to tribal lands. This engineer made it happen

Federal

An exterior view of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Washington D.C., on Jan. 5, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Court documents reveal ICE request for nearly 1.3 million taxpayer records

Federal

A view of the Department of Justice headquarters on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

How DOJ attorneys and EPA engineers secured a record Clean Air Act penalty

Workforce

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks onstage at the Puck Power Breakfast on Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Puck)

GOP senator: Legal immigration is ‘critical’ to US success in AI race

Workforce

(Handout photo courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Energy reveals plans for two new AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge

AI