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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Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force at the U.S. Department of Defense, and Retired Navy Commander David Fravor testify during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency” on Capitol Hill 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Lawmakers pledge to pursue greater transparency on ‘existential threat’ of UAPs

Tech

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Senators aim to set a mandatory timeline and process for agencies to declassify all UAP records

Tech

CIO John Sherman and Adm. John Aquilino pose after meeting at Indo-Pacom. (LinkedIn)

Pentagon CIO confronts interoperability challenges with Indo-Pacific Command

IT

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III swears in Defense Innovation Unit Director Douglas Beck in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2023. (DoD Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

Doug Beck hints at strategic shifts that DIU’s ‘next phase’ has in store

Emerging Tech

U.S. Air Force Airmen board a C-130J Super Hercules from the 36th Airlift Squadron assigned to Yokota Air Base, Japan in support of Northern Edge 23-2 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, July 7, 2023. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Alexandria Byrd)

Northern Edge exercise becomes test field for prototypes from DOD’s Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve

Tech

Subcommittee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) speaks during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on barriers that prevent the Department of Defense from adopting and deploying A.I. effectively and the risks from adversarial A.I. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

In wake of Project Maven, Pentagon urged to launch new ‘pathfinder’ initiatives to accelerate AI

AI

Deputy Secretary Hicks visits U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Pacific Fleet, in July 2023. (Photo by Staff Sgt. John Wright)

Indo-Pacific Command to take on bigger role in DOD’s ‘global information dominance’ experiments

AI

A Sailor assigned to the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11) looks through the ship’s binoculars during an outbound sea and anchor detail from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 27, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Juel Foster/Released)

A first look at Naval Oceanography’s new ‘North Star’ data strategy

Tech

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 7, 2020: Senator Angus King, an Independent from Maine, speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Kenneth Braithwaite. (Photo by: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

Senators propose new DOD-led prize competition for tech to detect and watermark generative AI

AI