Brandi Vincent

Brandi Vincent is DefenseScoop’s Pentagon correspondent. She reports on emerging and disruptive technologies, and associated policies, impacting the Defense Department and its personnel. Prior to joining Scoop News Group, Brandi produced a long-form documentary and worked as a journalist at Nextgov, Snapchat and NBC Network. She grew up in Louisiana and received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.

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Cathy Lucas, grandniece of World War II pilot 1st Lt. Herbert Tennyson, holds a photo of Herbert and his wife, Jean Tennyson, in Wichita, Kansas, June 27, 2025. The plane Tennyson flew was shot down off the coast of Papua New Guinea on March 11, 1944, and was not located until 2017 by Project Recover, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency partner organization. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Paige Weldon)

How digitization is delivering real-world impacts at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

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Air Force Gen. Randall Reed, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, visits the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines, June 5, 2025. Reed visited several U.S., allied, and commercial installations in the Pacific to strengthen relationships, increasing logistics capacity and cooperation, and discuss the importance of preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific. (DoD photo by Jonathan Stefanko)

Transportation Command could see expanded contested logistics responsibilities next year

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A report from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is seen as US President Donald Trump holds a meeting with his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, of April 30, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Spox: Inside the Pentagon, DOGE ‘is not going to stop’ anytime soon

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An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 15, 2023. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright)

Pentagon approves 55,000 deferred resignations as workforce reduction pursuits continue to evolve

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael tour multi-domain autonomous displays in the courtyard of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2025. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

Trump administration shrinks Defense Technical Information Center staff from 154 to 40

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Experts worry about transparency, unforeseen risks as DOD forges ahead with new frontier AI projects

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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 03: U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) sits on the steps outside the U.S. Capitol during the procedural vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

California lawmaker looks to curb agencies from using military drones to surveil protesters

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In a an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee on May 17, 2022, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared a video of a US. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object in a fleeting pass. This image is a screen capture of the UAP observed in a video of the flyby captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet. (DVIDS)

UAP disclosure advocates call for expanded reforms in fiscal 2026 NDAA

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The U.S. Capitol Building is seen at dusk after the National Weather Service issued an Extreme Heat Warning for the region on June 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

House Defense Modernization Caucus pushes authority and acquisition reforms for fiscal 2026

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