Brandi Vincent

Brandi Vincent is a Senior Reporter at DefenseScoop, where she reports on disruptive technologies and associated policies impacting Pentagon and military personnel. Prior to joining SNG, she produced a documentary and worked as a journalist at Nextgov, Snapchat and NBC Network. Brandi grew up in Louisiana and received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. She was named Best New Journalist at the 2024 Defence Media Awards.

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DHS offering grants to states, local governments for counter-drone tech ahead of major national events

Tech

The IBM logo at the headquarters of IBM Germany in the Highlight Towers in Parkstadt Schwabing in Munich (Bavaria). (Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A first look at IBM’s new large language model that’s fine-tuned for defense applications

AI

An instructor with Expeditionary Operations Training Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, engages targets from a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk assigned to Bravo Company, 1-140th Aviation Regiment, during Advanced Sniper Course 25-2 hosted by EOTG, I MEF, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 19, 2025. ASC is designed to train personnel in the marksmanship skills necessary to provide sniper support to expeditionary operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Oliver Nisbet)

Marines’ Force Design plan urges modernization to tackle ‘the changing character of war’

AI

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., walks down the House steps as the House votes on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in Washington on Friday, March 27, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

As China advances, Congress wants DOD to get up to speed on biotechnology

Emerging Tech

Gen. James J. Mingus, U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff, delivers a presentation on The Evolving Character of War during the third day of the annual Maneuver Warfighter Conference, Sept. 11, 2025, in Marshall Auditorium at Fort Benning, Georgia. The annual Maneuver Warfighter Conference gathers U.S. Army senior leaders and subject-matter experts from across the globe to discuss the way forward for maneuver forces. (U.S. Army photo by Joey Rhodes II)

Trump submits nomination to replace Mingus as Army Vice Chief of Staff

Tech

Reps. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., and Joe Wilson, R-S.C., visit the exhibition of photos featuring war crime sites and civilians innocently killed by Russian occupiers at the Church of Saint Andrew the First-Called Apostle and All Saints, Bucha, Kyiv Region, northern Ukraine. (Volodymyr Tarasov / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Looking to deter Russia, lawmakers seek to prioritize defense cooperation on NATO’s eastern flank

Weapons

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump calls on reporters during a meeting with Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese (L), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during a bilateral meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Albanese is visiting the U.S. Capital to meet with President Trump and later visit the Pentagon. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump officially endorses AUKUS at White House meeting with Australian prime minister

Tech

A crane is seen from Virginia as it removes airplane wreckage from the Potomac River, where American Airlines flight 5342 collided with a US military Black Hawk helicopter, near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, on Monday, Feb 03, 2025 in Alexandria, VA. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Senators urge new aviation safety proposals informed by fatal collision near DCA

Tech

Right, The Chief of Staff of the Army, General Randy A. George; and Lt. Gen. Tony Hale, G-2 Deputy Chief of Staff, aboard a UH-60 Blackhawk, view different training sites of Fort Huachuca’s John R. Fox Multi-Domain Operations Non-Kinetic Range Complex Feb. 21, 2024. The complex is used by the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence and visiting units and organizations. (DVIDS Photo by Sgt. Jilian Mueller)

Army Counterintelligence Command prepares for expanded off-post authorities

Tech