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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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

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

Pentagon IG moves to assess high-stakes Replicator initiative

Tech

The Pentagon, captured on July 16 by Maxar’s WorldView Legion satellite. (Maxar)

Maxar debuts never-before-seen shots from its new, next-generation satellites

Space

The crew of USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC 1140) inspect the holds of a Philippine-flagged transshipment vessel in the North Pacific Ocean on March 31, 2023. The team returned to Guam on April 9, 2023, following the 30-day patrol supporting the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency’s Operation 365 and Operation Rematau to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in the Pacific. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer Sara Muir)

NGA buys maritime data to help Indo-Pacific Command, via first-ever CSO

Tech