Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.
Born in a U.S. Air Force family, he grew up on military bases around the world and came to Washington DC 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 US 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.
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first production version of the MQ-4C Triton to the U.S. Navy that comes equipped with low- and high-band signals intelligence payloads.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced a plan on Feb. 1 to deploy a “laser wall” in the country’s south later this year to shoot down rockets from Gaza.
The British Army has confirmed plans to join the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile program as part of a wider upgrade to the Land Deep Fires capability.
