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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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle met with World War II veterans, 100-year old Paul Robins and 99-year old Eddie Desmond, aboard the Battleship USS New Jersey Museum and Memorial in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Joe J. Cardona Gonzalez).

Navy CNO is ‘all ahead flank’ on AI

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Fort Hood’s Bernie Beck gate during sun rise Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Killeen. ( Nick de la Torre / Chronicle ) (Photo by Nick de la Torre/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Army looks to lease out land on 4 military installations for new commercial data centers

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Sailors, attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2, deploy an MK18 Mod 1 Swordfish unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) during UNITAS LXV, September 5, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Hunter S. Harwell)

Navy eyes extended subsea network to link up its arsenal of manned and unmanned assets for DMO

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The Pentagon (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Marisol Walker)

CDAO invests in AI-enabled translation for military-wide use

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A poster at the Pentagon, Dec. 12, 2025, lets employees know that a new artificial intelligence tool is available to use at the War Department, and that employees are highly encouraged to use it. (Credit: C. Todd Lopez, DOW)

5 out of 6 military branches have elevated GenAI.mil as their go-to enterprise AI platform

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Aerial view of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Pentagon names 6 appointees to lead the CTO’s top technology efforts

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Gen. Dagvin Anderson, commander, U.S. Africa Command; Francisca Tatchouop Belobe, the African Union commissioner for economic development, trade, tourism, industry, and minerals; and Walter Parrs, charge d’affaires, U.S. Mission to the African Union, and other military and government leaders met at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 28, 2026. Established in 2002 as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity, the African Union is a continental body consisting of member states that make up the countries of the African Continent. (Department of Defense courtesy photo)

U.S. Africa Command prioritizes technology as ‘an enabler of African-led security’

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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division operate a GhostX drone from a mobile laptop during Exercise Combined Resolve 25-1 at Hohenfels Training Area on Jan. 31, 2025. Combined Resolve is a US-led, NATO and partner-integrated exercise in the European Theater focused on combined arms interoperability. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bryanne Vega)

Army’s CamoGPT won’t be phased out as Pentagon embraces more commercial genAI products

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (R) during a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

New U.S. defense strategy ‘barely mentions technology’

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