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 U.S. government on May 7 tentatively approved Egypt to remanufacture 43 Boeing AH-64D attack helicopters to the E-model configuration, superceding a two-year-old Foreign Military Sales case for 10 new-build AH-64Es.
A second experiment of advanced battle management and networking technologies delayed by the novel coronavirus since April will be expanded and held in late August or early September, the leader of the U.S. Air Force’s initiative said on May 7.
The U.S. Air Force will perform a three-week field trial of a prototype high-powered microwave system designed by Raytheon for extended-range defense of air bases from aerial threats.
