Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington.
Born in a U.S. Air Force family, he grew up on military bases around the world and came to Washington in 1997 to work for Army Times Publishing Co. as a journalist. Steve helped launch the Military.com portal in 2000, then joined the editorial team for Aviation Week’s web site in 2001. He reported on the Pentagon for Aerospace Daily in 2002 and 2003.
From September 2003 to September 2018, Steve covered defense and aviation issues and managed staff as the U.S. bureau chief for Jane’s Defence Weekly and later FlightGlobal. He has covered aviation stories on six continents and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Aerospace Media Awards honor for Best In-Depth Feature on the effort to revive Russia’s commercial aviation industry.
High altitude long endurance aircraft and High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites have attracted the U.S. Force Service’s interest for monitoring wildfires and relaying communication signals.
米国の軍事的な優位性が低下している中、米国 DARPA（国防高等研究計画局）はプラットフォーム上の機能の分散を推し進めている。 As the foundation of U.S. military dominance becomes a vulnerability, DARPA makes push for decentralizing
The decision could expand total production to 10,000 units of the baseline and extended range (JASSM-ER) stealthy cruise missile, or 5,100 more than the previous ceiling.
