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.
Lawmakers want the Pentagon to broaden its use of advanced technologies for hypersonic and ballistic missile defense by increasing research in directed energy.
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee will allow the U.S. Air Force to continue to chip away at its C-130 and legacy tanker fleets under its markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill.
