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 has cleared its troubled KC-46 to operationally refuel F-15s and F-16s as part of its ongoing rollout of interim capability releases for the tanker.
The top official overseeing U.S. international weapons sales will take over Boeing’s defense, space and government sales, starting two days after she leaves government service.
The U.S. Air Force wants industry to tell it how much of a shortfall there is in its tanker capacity to bolster a potential contract for commercial air refueling, with a deadline of June 2023.
