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.
A $350 million investment since 2017 in test and evaluation infrastructure for hypersonic systems has sat mostly dormant, but is about to get its first test.
The Army’s construction branch is gearing up to support a $245 million to $385 million project to establish a maintenance and operations complex for the first operational squadron.
A request for information published on Oct. 30 by the U.S. Navy’s program executive office for submarine combat and weapons control revealed that the Naval Sea Systems Command is in the market research phase for a new SLUAS capability.
