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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Task Force Lima military patch (CDAO image)

Questions on DOD’s plans for generative AI swirl as Task Force Lima’s possible sunset nears

AI

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U.S. flaunts diverse drones, high-altitude balloons and more at AUKUS event in Australia

Emerging Tech

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing, refuels a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft during exercise RAMSTEIN FLAG 2024 while flying over the coast of Greece, Oct. 4, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Edgar Grimaldo)

Army, Air Force embark on multi-national exercises to counter emerging threats to NATO

Tech

Air Force Brig. Gen. Michael McGinley, director of GigEagle Agile Talent Ecosystem initiative, gives a presentation at an event sponsored by Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Va., June 5, 2024. (Photo credit: Nicole Brate, DOD)

DIU moves to scale AI-powered app that links defense talent with temp work

AI

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Stetson Manuel, an infantryman and Robotics and Autonomous Systems platoon sergeant from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, 316th Cavalry Brigade, carries the Ghost-X Unmanned Aircraft System after its flight during experimentation at Project Convergence – Capstone 4, March 11, 2024 at Fort Irwin, Calif. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Charlie Duke)

Army moves to rapidly field Anduril’s Ghost-X drones via Replicator

Emerging Tech

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Army’s new brain health strategy to address anomalous health incidents, Havana Syndrome

Tech

DefenseScoop’s Brandi Vincent interviews Gen. Jackie Van Ovost on Sept. 17, 2024, on the sidelines of AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber conference at National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Natalie Powell. Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Transportation Command)

‘It’s about the future’: Newly retired Gen. Van Ovost, the first woman to lead Transcom, reflects on her legacy

Tech

Photo from DARPA ReSource demo. (Kaden Staley, Michigan Technological University. August 7, 2024)

‘Waste to value’: Inside cutting-edge DARPA efforts to make food out of trash and gasses

Emerging Tech

Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, Air Mobility Command commander, sits at the pilot’s controls of a KC-46A Pegasus while in-flight over Kansas Feb. 6, 2021. Van Ovost is a U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School graduate and command pilot with over 4,200 flight hours in more than 30 aircraft, including the C-17A Globemaster, KC-135R Stratotanker and the KC-46. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Skyler Combs)

‘You don’t get there unless you have the data’: Transcom taps Advana in real-world operations

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