Brandi Vincent

Brandi Vincent is DefenseScoop’s Pentagon correspondent. She reports on disruptive technologies and associated policies impacting Defense Department 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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River entrance of the U.S. Department of Defense. (Getty Images)

Questions linger after drone attack injures US personnel in Syria

Tech

Michael Horowitz, in sunglasses, ride a ferry to watch a capabilities demonstration at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s outlying range Bombing Target 11, North Carolina, Dec. 15, 2023. (Source: DVIDS)

Pentagon’s autonomous weapons policymaker departs for academia

Emerging Tech

The main gate of the United States European Command (EUCOM) headquarters at the Patch Barracks is seen in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on July 29, 2020. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)

DIU embed works to help Eucom modernize against real-world threats

Tech

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks speaks on Aug. 7, 2024, at NDIA’s Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference and Exhibition. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

DOD puzzling out capability focus area for Replicator 2.0

Emerging Tech

U.S. Airmen from the New York, Washington, and Maryland Air National Guard monitor aircraft during the Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 in conjunction with the Architecture Demonstration and Evaluation 5 event at the 601st Air Operation Center on Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla, July 14, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Byers)

How the Pentagon will advance its CJADC2 experiments — with allies — next year

AI

(L-R) Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong join US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin take part in a ceremony at the start of the 2024 Australia-US Ministerial Consultations at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, August 6, 2024. (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

US hosts Australia to further deepen military, industrial ties

Tech

Doug Beck engages with companies and investors at the Defense Innovation OnRamp Hub in Hawaii, summer 2024. (DIU photo)

DIU, Indo-Pacific Command leaders connect in Hawaii on Replicator

Tech

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) walks to a Senate luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on December 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Senator urges more oversight, data tracking on defense OTAs

Tech

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CDAO launches new role to improve management, business functions

AI