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. Senate on Feb. 9 voted 93-2 to approve the nomination of Douglas Bush to be the assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space announced Feb. 9 that it has finished thermal vacuum testing of the payload for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Block 0 program, ensuring the satellite’s sensor payload can survive in space.
