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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Special operators conduct training in austere conditions at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, on May 9, 2023, in support of exercise ARCTIC EDGE 2023. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Andrew Adams)

DOD’s new Arctic strategy calls for better tech to ‘monitor and respond’

Tech

Ukrainian serviceman of the 28th brigade Denys, 24, assembles an FPV drone in Donetsk region on April 29, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Defense Innovation Board taking closer look at escalating military drone challenges

Tech

This photograph shows screens displaying the logo of “CrowdStrike” cybersecurity technology company in Paris on July 19, 2024, amid massive global IT outage. Airlines, banks, TV channels and other business across the globe were scrambling to deal with one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

DOD ‘monitoring’ networks in wake of CrowdStrike outage

IT

U.S. Sailors prepare for a live-fire exercise aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), July 9, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ikia Walker)

Navy to reset and reinvigorate Operation Cattle Drive

IT

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III poses for a photo with Defense Innovation Board members at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., July 17, 2024. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

Defense Innovation Board calls on DOD to reorganize, launch new undersecretariat

Tech

Leaders assemble for a meeting of the heads of state of the North Atlantic Council, Indo-Pacifc Partners and the European Union, during the 2024 NATO Summit on July 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

NATO seeks to confront the growing ‘pressure of hybrid war’

Tech

DARPA Director Stefanie Tompkins (left) speaks at NATO to the Future in July 2024. (Photo by Brandi Vincent.

DARPA moves to mitigate possible unintended consequences of AI

AI

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg brief reporters at the Washington Summit on July 11, 2024. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

New NATO-Ukraine hub for war analysis, training to open in Poland next year

Tech

A general view shows security fencing set up outside the Washington Convention center where the NATO summit will be taking place in Washington, DC, from July 9th to the 11th. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

NATO readies to launch first-of-its-kind integrated cyber defense center

Cyber