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 is undergoing a modernization effort to overhaul its fighter, bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile fleets as the Pentagon is shifting further to the Pacific, but even with all that change the service’s top official says there should not be a big change in its force structure.
The U.S. Air Force is ready to make a commitment to fielding a Collaborative Combat Aircraft—a loyal wingman-type drone to fly alongside future fighters—after r
A Boeing KC-46 took off from its home base in Kansas on Oct. 25 and flew west toward military airspace in Utah in a mission to test a new tactic for the refueler, one that has become controversial since the plan first came to light over the summer.
