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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Soldier tests the Capability Set 3 (CS3) militarized form factor prototype of the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a life fire test event at its third Soldier Touchpoint (STP 3) at Fort Pickett, Virginia. (DoD photo)

Army moves to further automate its IVAS program’s processes with bots

Uncategorized

From left: Dr. Nick Glavin, Dr. Ajit Roy and Dr. Michael McConney stand with a nanomaterial deposition chamber at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Sept. 24, 2021. The trio are increasing the availability of nano materials by building stronger ties with industry, government and academia in India. The Air Force Research Laboratory established a new Strategic Partnering Directorate, or AFRL/SP, achieve greater alignment, effectiveness and efficiencies in supporting partnership priorities across the Department of the Air Force’s science and technology enterprise. AFRL/SP will now manage international partnerships for the laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo/Patrick Foose).

Air Force Research Lab unveils major realignment of partnerships with launch of new directorate

Emerging Tech

John Sherman — John Sherman appears in the Pentagon Briefing Room for the Cyber Beacon virtual event, Dec. 3, 2020. (DOD / Marvin Lynchard)

Pentagon CIO considers changes to cloud service provider security measures in wake of potential data exposure

Cyber

Gen. Saltzman speaks at CSIS on Feb. 22, 2022. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

Saltzman: Space Force must ‘build new infrastructure’ to underpin future training

Space

Interactive online assistant. A dialog with a voice-activated virtual chatbot in the smartphone screen. Polygonal construction of lines and points. Blue background. — (Getty Images)

No, ChatGPT didn’t write DOD’s latest autonomous weapons policy — but similar tech might be used in the future

Emerging Tech

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Pentagon tight-lipped regarding alleged military email and data exposure

Cyber

New leaders take the helm of Pentagon’s refreshed Directorate for Digital Services

AI

Photo by: Leon Neal/Getty Images

CIA to investigate how generative AI (like ChatGPT) can assist intelligence agencies

AI

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Pentagon chieftains deploy a new data-driven tool to ‘take the Pulse’ of their enterprise

Tech