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.
The Defense Department’s fiscal 2020 hypersonic weapon budget request shows that the path beyond operational flight and weapons prototypes is still long and uncertain.
The USAF wants a promised, Boeing-funded upgrade for the KC-46’s remote vision system to include an architectural change that would resolve a fundamental “design flaw” with the current technology, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper says.
