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.
The U.S. Air Force has launched a market survey for a newly christened F-35 Adaptive Engine Replacement program, disclosing the first details of a still-unfunded proposal to replace the Pratt & Whitney F135 within five years of a possible contract award in the first quarter of fiscal 2024.
The control systems for the booster fin have been identified for the first time as the culprits behind a series of flight test failures of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon.
