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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Cerner taps 24 subcontractors to support $10B Veterans EHR modernization

Defense

Left to right, participants in a panel on cloud computing at the Digital Innovation Summit presented by Dell Technologies and produced by FedScoop: Bobby Saxon, CTO at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Paul Puckett, CTO of federal for Pivotal; Pamela Isom, deputy CIO at the Department of Energy; and Ron Hewitt, director of the Office of Emergency Communications Department at the Department of Homeland Security. (FedScoop)

Cloud Smart gets positive feedback from agency IT leaders

Tech

Scott Bean, left, and John Sherman participate in a panel Oct. 3, 2018, at the Digital Transformation Summit presented by Dell Technologies and produced by FedScoop. (FedScoop)

IC CIO Sherman sets focus on ‘explosion’ of publicly available intelligence data

Tech

Will Hurd — Will Hurd (House Oversight and Government Reform Committee / Flickr)

Confident TMF will be funded in 2019, Will Hurd is focusing now on agency working capital funds

Modernization

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GSA awards $2.5B payroll shared services contract

Acquisition

170308-N-HE318-015 PHILIPPINE SEA (March 8, 2017) Lt. Christian Asaban views a computer monitor aboard the forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) during Multisail 17. The exercise is a bilateral training exercise improving interoperability between the U.S. and Japanese forces. This exercise benefits from realistic, shared training enhancing our ability to work together to confront any contingency. Text on the monitor has been blurred for security purposes.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William McCann/Released)

CSRA wins potential $95M contract to provide commercial cloud for Navy

Acquisition

Tech. Sgt. Manuel Quiñones-Figuero, 432nd Aircraft Communication Maintenance Squadron NCO in charge formal training unit, teaches Tech. Sgt. Thomas Diest, 432nd ACMS NCO in charge FTU, basic post-flight procedures Aug. 19, 2015, at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The ACMS is the only unit in the Air Force dedicated to maintaining the communications network of the remotely piloted aircraft enterprise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Christian Clausen/Released)

Air Force awards $121M in Enterprise IT-as-a-Service ‘experiments’

Defense

Bread for the World award recipient Rep. Will Hurd at the 2018 Lobby Day reception. (Flickr/Lacey Johnson for Bread for the World)

Will Hurd wants to codify, elevate the role of the federal CIO

Tech

AWS’ Bill Vass at FedTalks 2018

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