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 National Reconnaissance Office and SpaceX on Feb. 2 plan to launch the first Falcon 9 carrying an NRO payload procured under the National Security Space Launch program, and the first time a booster will be reused for another NRO mission.
U.S. Army Materiel Command is ready to outline its broad plan to modernize the country’s organic industrial base—the system of depots, arsenals and ammunition plants that serve the military—to ensure the manufacturing support is ready for a crisis.
Lockheed Martin’s entrant in the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y “bridge tanker” program would be assembled in Mobile, Alabama, and missionized Marietta, Georgia, should it win the award, and the company expects requirements to be outlined in a draft request for proposals (RFP) this year.
