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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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Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 19, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

MITRE moves to comply with lawmaker’s request for UAP records and assets dating back to 1930

Tech

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth operates a touch screen to remotely control a helicopter from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., Nov. 14, 2025. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

Why DARPA just renamed and reshaped 2 key technology offices

Emerging Tech

The Pentagon on August 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

DOD wants nearly $30 billion to modernize its AI supercomputing arsenal in fiscal 2027

AI

Actual site photo with FBI rendered graphic depicting corroborating eye witness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously. (U.S. Government Photo from war.gov/ufo)

‘Data alone is not disclosure’: UAP research community reacts to Trump’s first PURSUE file drop

Tech

The U.S. Capitol building dome is seen through spring flowers on March 30, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

House Foreign Affairs Committee considers proposals to speed up U.S. weapons exports

Weapons

Sunset in the Atlantic from USNS Pathfinder (T-AGS 60) a Military Sealift Command oceanographic survey ship during a scheduled underway with Sailors from U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and staff from Naval Oceanographic Office on board. (US Navy photo by LT Bobby Dixon / Released)

Navy eyes a ‘mothership’ with drones for future oceanographic survey missions

Tech

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology Dr. Joseph S. Jewell participates in the Department of Defense Lab Day at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 05, 2026. (DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Carson Croom)

New S&T chief supplies update on DOD’s pilot program for free tech patent licenses

Tech

Department of Defense Inspector General Platte B. Moring III and senior leadership from the office’s criminal investigative arm met recently with Colin M. McDonald, the Department of Justice’s first-ever Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division. (DOD OIG PHOTO)

Pentagon OIG partners with Justice Department’s new government fraud-hunting team

Tech

CDAO War Data Platform Program Director Elizabeth “Liz” Chirico speaks on a panel at the UiPath Fusion conference, presented by FedScoop, May 5, 2026. (Photo by Sergey Kolupaev/EPNAC)

A first look at CDAO’s new ‘Wingman’ work to enable custom, AI digital assistants across DOD

AI