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.
The Pentagon and BAE Systems have agreed to scale up production of laser-guided rocket guidance kits that have become critical in the fight against drones.
A U.S. Navy ship at sea controlled a Boeing MQ-25 uncrewed aircraft thousands of miles away in a new, key test for the program ahead of its first carrier-based flight.
