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Managing Editor

Matt Bracken

Scoop News Group

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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Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, questions Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Financial deepfake scams targeted in bipartisan Senate bill

AI

Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., left, and Mark Warner, D-Va., head for votes at the Capitol on Feb. 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Senators take another swing at vulnerability disclosure policy bill for federal contractors

Government

Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, gets into a heated exchange with U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. during a hearing of the House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump at the Rayburn House Office Building on Dec. 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Federal cyber workforce training institute eyed in bipartisan House bill

Government

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., questions U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

DOGE could scrap identity protections for those impacted by OPM breach, senator warns

Policy

Demonstrators raise signs and posters outside Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters on Feb. 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn)

CFPB to withdraw rule targeting data brokers

Government

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House passes bill to study routers’ national security risks

Policy

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House bill seeks better tech to combat financial fraud scams against elderly

Policy

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Bill to study national security risks in routers passes House committee

Policy

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., speaks during a hearing with the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Capitol Hill on June 12, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senators re-up bill to expand Secret Service’s financial cybercrime authorities

Cybercrime