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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Lt. Elliot Reed, right, assigned to Air Department aboard the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), signals to a Carrier Air Wing 8 F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 87, as it launches from the flight deck, July 14, 2025. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tajh Payne)

NIWC Atlantic’s new Rapid Capabilities Office aims to deliver tech ‘at wartime speed’

Tech

A passenger plane flies above the Pentagon, as seen from the top of the Washington Monument on January 5, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

Cameron Stanley emerges as frontrunner to be next Pentagon CDAO

AI

Aerial view of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, October 22, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

DOD maps out plan for new enterprise command-and-control program office, C2 suite

AI

Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on January 3, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

US deploys 150-plus military aircraft, drones and other tech in raid to capture Venezuela’s Maduro

Weapons

Navy Secretary John Phelan and Palantir CEO Alex Karp unveil ShipOS in Washington D.C. on Dec. 9, 2025. (Photo by DefenseScoop)

How the new Navy-Palantir ‘ShipOS’ partnership is informed by Project Maven

AI

A poster at the Pentagon, Dec. 12, 2025, lets employees know that a new artificial intelligence tool is available to use at the War Department, and that employees are highly encouraged to use it. (Credit: C. Todd Lopez, DOW)

The era of GenAI.mil is here. Users have mixed reactions and many questions.

AI

Dr. Douglas Matty, then-Army Artificial Intelligence Task Force Director, spoke to Association of the United States Army annual meeting attendees during the October 13, 2021 Army Advanced Technologies (Cloud and Data) Warriors Corner event at Washington, D.C.’s Walter E. Washington Convention Center. (Photo by Edward Loomis)

Pentagon AI chief departing to work on Golden Dome effort

AI

Then-Rear Adm. Seiko Okano along with other NAVWAR leadership spent two days at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic meeting with NIWC Atlantic leadership and touring the facilities to learn more about the capabilities offered. (DVIDS PHOTO 05.20.2025 Photo by Joseph Bullinger)

Navy’s new Rapid Capabilities Office pursues disruption, with caution

Tech

U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) speaks during a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

House Defense Modernization Caucus touts key reforms it helped secure in 2026 NDAA

Tech