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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The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Pacific Ocean, Oct. 13, 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Devin M. Monroe/Released)

Gilday: Navy’s big plans to scale Project Overmatch start with USS Carl Vinson

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Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman delivers a keynote speech “Guardians in the Fight” during the Air and Space Forces Association 2023 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo., March 7, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich)

From Z-grams to C-notes: Inside Gen. Saltzman’s unique approach to leading America’s digitally focused Space Force

Space

AFRL tech leaders brief reporters at the AFA Warfare Symposium on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Brandi VIncent)

AFRL unveils new directorate and ‘labverse’ to accelerate digital transformation

Tech

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall delivers a keynote at the AFA Warfare Symposium on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

Air Force planning for 1,000 robotic wingmen

Weapons

Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter briefs the media at AFA’s Warfare Symposium, March 6, 2023. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

Air Force acquisition chief outlines new approach for more survivable, better networked next-gen tankers

Weapons

Photo Courtesy: Raytheon Technologies

SDA taps Raytheon for ‘fifth orbital plane’ of missile-tracking satellites

Space

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III SV06 payload launches from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla on Jan. 18, 2023. The overall objective of GPS III is to deliver sustained, reliable GPS capabilities to America’s warfighters, our allies, and civil users. GPS provides positioning, navigation, and timing service to civil and military users worldwide.(U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Thomas Sjoberg)

Space Force buys self-driving, smart tractors to support grounds maintenance

Space

Quad partners work to boost Indo-Pacific domain awareness as concerns mount over a Chinese spy balloon fleet

Emerging Tech

A member of a Ukrainian volunteer unit and a computer science student “Valdemar”, 19, poses in a trench used by the unit to counter threats during air-raid sirens, at their position in a suburb of Kyiv on February 28, 2023. – Colonel “Smak” and his Ukrainian volunteer unit of 80 civilian volunteers take turns day and night keeping watch for incoming threats: Iranian-made “Shahed” explosive drones launched by the Russians. Since October, the unit – whose machine gun dates back to the 1920s – has shot down three such drones. A dozen of these units, attached to the territorial defence, cover the sky of the Capital city of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia-Ukraine war drives the Army to consider possible trans-regional fights of the future

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