Brian Everstine

Pentagon Editor

WASHINGTON, DC

Summary

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, Brian covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times. Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the boom operator station of a KC-46. Before the military beat, Brian covered the Washington state legislature for the Associated Press.

Articles

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon will create a new four-star command focused on autonomous warfare over the next year.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Five companies will create prototypes as part of the U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 4 under new other transaction authority agreements.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
A newly released Pentagon report on the development of the E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Center outlines rare good news for a program in development.
Budget, Policy & Operations