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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Person’s hand holding an iPhone using the Google Bard generative AI language model (chatbot) with prompt entry field, Lafayette, California, March 22, 2023. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Pentagon CIO and CDAO: Don’t pause generative AI development — accelerate tools to detect threats

AI

Overhead view of NGA Campus East (NGA photo)

NGA picks 13 companies to compete through $900M intelligence support contracting vehicle

Tech

Screenshot of a Defense Media Activity video presented during an open hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 19. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), shared videos depicting an unidentified object with an apparent atmospheric wake or cavitation trailing it as it moved across the sensor’s field of view from left to right.

Senators want ‘more tangible evidence’ that Pentagon’s new UFO sleuthing team is meeting its mandates

Tech

Christine Cuicchi, Director of the Navy DSRC, explains the center’s supercomputing capability, at the Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2021. (Photo by Stephen Hoffmann)

Navy’s powerful new supercomputer — Nautilus — is officially open for DOD use

Cyber

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Pentagon gets $10M to advance an AI algorithm that detects diseases early via wearables

AI

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines speaks about digital threats, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace April 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Haines: US must ‘move with urgency’ to prepare for emerging tech threats like generative AI

Tech

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DARPA plans to fuse ‘best-of’ quantum communications tech with military networks

Emerging Tech

Defense Intelligence Agency headquarters (DIA photo)

DIA looks to launch ‘AI DIE’ — a new enterprise-level artificial intelligence hub

AI

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)

Pentagon’s UFO office now investigating more than 650 cases of ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’

Tech