Steve Trimble has been covering aviation, military and government news in Washington DC for 23 years. He helped launch the Military.com news portal during the first dot-com business cycle in 2000, then came to the Aviation Week Network to help manage the web site and later cover the Pentagon. He also has worked as a bureau chief and aviation reporter for FlightGlobal and Jane’s. Trimble returned to Aviation Week in 2018 to cover global military aviation and space news and trends.