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 U.S. Air Force will go ahead with keeping a two-pilot crew for its new B-21 bomber, despite a push from the prior leader of Air Force Global Strike Command.
The U.S. Army has kicked off a competition to build an interceptor with a goal of testing within the next several months and possibly fielding it within a year.
