Sandra Erwin is a senior staff writer at SpaceNews, a trusted and independent source of news and analysis of the companies, agencies, technologies and trends shaping the global space industry.
Based in Arlington, Virginia, Erwin specializes in Defense Department and Intelligence
Community space programs, policy, budgets, technology and the industry that supports
this sector.
In addition to reporting breaking news, Erwin writes a monthly column “On National
Security” that appears monthly in the SpaceNews magazine and edits SpaceNews
Military.Space, a weekly news-and-insights newsletter.
Erwin joined SpaceNews in October 2017. Before that, she covered the U.S. military, the
Pentagon, Congress and the defense industry for over two decades as editor of the
National Defense Industrial Association’s National Defense Magazine and as Pentagon
correspondent for Real Clear Defense.