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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IBM’s Dharmendra Modha delivers the NorthPole prototype to DOD’s Maynard Holliday. (IBM photo)

What IBM’s new AI-enabling, brain-inspired computer chips could mean for DOD

Emerging Tech

In a an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared this Navy image of a UAP captured during Naval Exercises off the East Coast of the United States in early 2022. The image was captured through night vision goggles and a single lens reflex camera. (DOD photo)

DOD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office confirms receipt of more than 800 reports of UAP

Tech

CDAO’s Jinyoung Englund speaks on a panel at the Google Public Sector Forum. (Photo: Scoop News Group)

Pentagon’s CDAO promotes ‘culture to experiment’ while confronting AI risks

AI

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Joe Larson, Pentagon’s algorithmic warfare chief, resigning from CDAO

AI

U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 1st Class Frederick Robinson, from Abbeville, Louisiana, stands tactical data coordinator (TDC) in the combat information center (CIC) during sea and anchor detail as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) departs Azores, Portugal after a brief stop for fuel, October 5, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)

Navy preps new strategic ‘blueprint’ for its ever-changing information architecture

IT

Gen. Randy George speaks to reporters during the AUSA 2023 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Oct. 9, 2023. (Tasos Katopodis for AUSA)

Army leaders preview smartphone app that will inform troops about what’s happening at their posts

Tech

UUV at Stennis Space Center. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

Surveys and stickers: A day on the water with the Navy’s MK-18 drones

Tech

Gabe Camarillo, Under Secretary of the Army, speaks during the Digital Transformation panel at the AUSA 2023 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Pete Marovich for AUSA)

Army shares first look at its ‘next big step’ to enable digital engineering at scale

Tech

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth at the AUSA annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis for AUSA)

Army leaders puzzling out how the service can fit into DOD’s new Replicator initiative

Emerging Tech