Ed has spent the last 30+ years reporting on aviation, aerospace and defense. Currently, he creates the content for Aviation Week’s multi-million dollar aviation/aerospace conferences that take place in the U.S., Europe the Mideast, Latin America and Asia. Chief among these are the MRO series of events that take place globally.

He has been chief correspondent for a national television news program devoted to aviation, editor of publications devoted to Air Traffic Management, aerospace in Russia and China and ballistic missile defense in the United States.

Ed is co-author of the book, "What Ever Happened to the Cold War?” Planning for a New Era in Defense," the definitive 1991 study of the U.S. defense industrial base and the strategies needed to enable industry to survive in the changing security environment.

Throughout the 1990s he conducted numerous studies that included research on European and Asia airports, an extensive analysis of the existing and unfolding airline market in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Ed does significant public speaking at aviation and aerospace events and conferences around the world. He also routinely comments in the media on hot issues related to the industry. He has won numerous awards in journalism, including the International Award for Best Continuing Coverage of a news story by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Associated Press Regional Broadcast Award for coverage of the Walker espionage case, and Best Individual Effort by a Reporter from Associated Press for uncovering fraud, waste and abuse in Virginia government. Ed received his B.S. mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University.