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.

Articles by Author

U.S. Marines review how to make nine-line calls on a radio during a communications exercise at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 17, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Kindo Go)

DOD moves $8B DEOS back-office cloud acquisition to GSA contract

Acquisition

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SEC adds 15 small businesses to its $2.5B IT services contract

Tech

A U.S. Soldier of 4th Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), communicates over the radio during Saber Junction 18 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 23 , 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Dhy’Nysha Shaw)

DISA official: Pentagon’s $8B DEOS must be truly commercial, ‘non-developmental’

Defense

An entrance at the Pentagon. (DOD / Navy Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Kathryn E. Holm / Flickr)

Lawmakers call for Pentagon IG to investigate JEDI cloud contract

Defense

181004-N-UN340-001 SAN DIEGO (Oct. 4, 2018) Consolidated Afloat Ships Network Enterprise Services (CANES) racks in the newly refitted Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Network Integration and Engineering Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released).

IT services portion of $3.5B Navy NGEN recompete goes live

Defense

Grant Schneider at the 2017 Digital Transformation Summit. (FedScoop)

The National Cybersecurity Strategy sounds familiar because it is, U.S. CISO says

Cyber

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Can collaboration tools like Slack, HipChat and G Suite help fix government? USDS is betting on it

Workforce

Microsoft — (Robert Scoble/Flickr)

‘Don’t bid on JEDI,’ employees tell Microsoft

Tech

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VA, DOD leaders commit to ‘seamlessly integrated electronic health record’

Modernization