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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Data highlights US defense industry’s modern separation from the broader economy

Tech

Dr. William W. Streilein, Chief Technology Officer for the Chief Digital and AI Office, Department of Defense, addressing the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference 2023, December 14, 2023, in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Wade Costin Defense Intelligence Agency)

CDAO’s first tech chief Bill Streilein exits for academia

AI

A representative from an unmanned aerial system manufacturer demonstrates capabilities for the Ascent Spirit UAS during a West Coast Blue UAS Industry Day at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Oct. 20, 2023. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Pedro Arroyo Jr.)

What’s unique about DIU’s new prize challenge to extend the Pentagon’s drone supply

Tech

Mariners aboard research vessel Bold Horizon recover a launched large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (Dive-LD by Anduril) in San Diego Bay during Integrated Battle Problem (IBP) 24.1, March 05, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Ian Delossantos)

Second Replicator tranche to include Anduril’s autonomous underwater drones

Tech

River entrance of the U.S. Department of Defense. (Getty Images)

Questions linger after drone attack injures US personnel in Syria

Tech

Michael Horowitz, in sunglasses, ride a ferry to watch a capabilities demonstration at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s outlying range Bombing Target 11, North Carolina, Dec. 15, 2023. (Source: DVIDS)

Pentagon’s autonomous weapons policymaker departs for academia

Emerging Tech

The main gate of the United States European Command (EUCOM) headquarters at the Patch Barracks is seen in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on July 29, 2020. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)

DIU embed works to help Eucom modernize against real-world threats

Tech

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks speaks on Aug. 7, 2024, at NDIA’s Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference and Exhibition. (Photo by Brandi Vincent)

DOD puzzling out capability focus area for Replicator 2.0

Emerging Tech

U.S. Airmen from the New York, Washington, and Maryland Air National Guard monitor aircraft during the Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 in conjunction with the Architecture Demonstration and Evaluation 5 event at the 601st Air Operation Center on Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla, July 14, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Byers)

How the Pentagon will advance its CJADC2 experiments — with allies — next year

AI