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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DOD UAP investigation video screenshot. — A screenshot taken of a Defense Department video released as part of an investigation by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. (Department of Defense video)

DOD developing ‘Gremlin’ capability to help personnel collect real-time UAP data

Tech

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Pentagon IG office shares new details about its unfolding evaluation of CDAO’s effectiveness

AI

INTERNATIONAL WATERS RED SEA, YEMEN – MARCH 2: (EDITORS NOTE: Best quality available) In this handout screen grab captured from a video provided by Al-Joumhouriah channel, shows the British cargo ship “Rubymar” sinking after it was targeted by Yemen’s Houthi forces in the Red Sea, on March 2, 2024, in the Red Sea, Yemen. (Photo by Al-Joumhouriah channel via Getty Images)

DOD warns Houthi-sunk ship could ‘create an environmental disaster’ in Red Sea

Weapons

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks meets with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office representative Dan Tadevich and other members of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator operational data team at USINDOPACOM Headquarters, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, July 6, 2023. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright)

CDAO identifies combatant command ‘embed’ — but stays tight-lipped on unfolding initiative

AI

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Air Force invests in new nuclear effects testing prototypes

Tech

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Army strategizes to promote ‘responsible AI’ adoption

AI

U.S. Airmen assigned with the 726th Air Control Squadron, 366th Operations Group, setup a communication system at Camp Pendleton, Calif., during Project Convergence-Capstone 4. This system allows the USAF to share ground data expeditiously with Air Traffic Control Towers and ground forces across various locations simultaneously. The exercise is just one of many experiments during the month-long PC-C4 event. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christ-Claude Mowandza-Ndinga)

What’s next for the new CJADC2 minimum viable capability

Tech

The Liberty Crossing Building, home to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, in McLean, Virginia, April 24, 2015. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

IC preparing its own tailor-made artificial intelligence policy

AI

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CDAO developing ‘classification guide’ for large language models

AI