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.

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Articles

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin announced Nov. 17 that it had conducted the first flight test of a new distributed infrared threat-warning system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The DOD's head of research and engineering has downsized the department’s list of top-priority technology areas it inherited.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. State Department has cleared a foreign military sale of $3.5 billion worth of the Standard Missile 6 Block I and Standard Missile Block IIIC.
Missile Defense & Weapons