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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CIO John Sherman and Adm. John Aquilino pose after meeting at Indo-Pacom. (LinkedIn)

Pentagon CIO confronts interoperability challenges with Indo-Pacific Command

IT

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III swears in Defense Innovation Unit Director Douglas Beck in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2023. (DoD Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

Doug Beck hints at strategic shifts that DIU’s ‘next phase’ has in store

Emerging Tech

U.S. Air Force Airmen board a C-130J Super Hercules from the 36th Airlift Squadron assigned to Yokota Air Base, Japan in support of Northern Edge 23-2 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, July 7, 2023. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Alexandria Byrd)

Northern Edge exercise becomes test field for prototypes from DOD’s Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve

Tech

Subcommittee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) speaks during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on barriers that prevent the Department of Defense from adopting and deploying A.I. effectively and the risks from adversarial A.I. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

In wake of Project Maven, Pentagon urged to launch new ‘pathfinder’ initiatives to accelerate AI

AI

Deputy Secretary Hicks visits U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Pacific Fleet, in July 2023. (Photo by Staff Sgt. John Wright)

Indo-Pacific Command to take on bigger role in DOD’s ‘global information dominance’ experiments

AI

A Sailor assigned to the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11) looks through the ship’s binoculars during an outbound sea and anchor detail from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 27, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Juel Foster/Released)

A first look at Naval Oceanography’s new ‘North Star’ data strategy

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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 7, 2020: Senator Angus King, an Independent from Maine, speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Kenneth Braithwaite. (Photo by: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

Senators propose new DOD-led prize competition for tech to detect and watermark generative AI

AI

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In major reorg, Pentagon forms new Force Development and Emerging Capabilities Office

AI

U.S. Rep.-elect Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Rep.-elect Mike Gallagher (R-WI) applaud in the House Chamber during the second day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 04, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Urged by House Republicans, the Pentagon and other agencies are assessing whether the US should renew a longstanding S&T pact with China

Tech