MISSION CRITICAL 2026: dOWNRANGE MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR SUPPLIER VISIBILITY AND IMPACT
Tier One executive media training and trusted media relationships — your mission amplified.
Shape the Future – Partner with Downrange
Tier One storytelling. Battlefield-tested. Downrange delivers.
Forgepoint Downrange Communications, LLC is dedicated to championing the nation’s aerospace and defense suppliers, delivering Tier One media relations support that gives you an edge in a highly competitive industry.
Our expertise is rooted in decades of hands-on experience—leading communications for Boeing’s most scrutinized defense programs and working closely with the nation’s top aerospace and mainstream news anchors and correspondents. We leverage a deep understanding of the supply chain industry with established media relationships and our background in broadcast news to boost your company’s visibility.
Backed by our executive media training, you’ll be prepped to handle any situation. We’ve trained hundreds of Boeing executives and watched them deliver successful results in media engagements worldwide.
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Why Downrange Communications?
Leadership With a proven track record of guiding aerospace and defense supply chain companies, Downrange President Jerry Drelling delivers leading-edge expertise in strategic communications. As a former senior spokesman for Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) and television news anchor, Drelling brings a unique blend of newsroom savvy and insider defense industry knowledge to every engagement.
His leadership in crisis, program, and supply chain communications at BDS solidified his reputation as a trusted voice in the field. He leverages that experience to help aerospace and defense suppliers maximize their visibility and achieve measurable success. Under his guidance, Downrange Communications is not just a partner—it’s an amplifier for the industry’s most critical voices.
From media tours and defense trade shows to crisis communications and international conferences, we’ve successfully led media relations for Boeing’s most scrutinized programs: the Space Launch System, the CST-100 Starliner, the International Space Station, the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, the C-17 Globemaster III, the V-22 Osprey and the AH-64 Apache.
In his nearly 20 years with Boeing, Drelling also served as head of communications for BDS’s chief operating officer and the Supplier Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Safety organization.
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Elevating Supply Chain Companies: We don’t just support your mission—we amplify it.
Command With our extensive experience working with defense supply chain companies, we understand the unique demands facing suppliers and work relentlessly to amplify their visibility, credibility, and impact.
Our tailored strategies position clients for maximum engagement with key stakeholders and decision-makers and delivering measurable results. We’ve done it successfully for countless suppliers to the world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing.
Executive Media Training
Primecast Executives who communicate with clarity, confidence, and conviction during media engagements position their companies as strong, capable leaders in the aerospace industry. A single press conference can shift market perception—executives must deliver not just facts, but narrative, nuance, and authority.
Downrange offers one of the most elite media training programs in the aerospace industry that will ensure you’re prepared for Prime Time. Led by company President Jerry Drelling, a former TV news anchor, our expertise is built on experience: Over two decades, we’ve trained hundreds of Boeing senior executives and shaped their ability to command interviews with confidence and clarity. Drelling has traveled around the world and watched them excel at delivering key messages at major air shows, media briefings and in 1:1 interviews.
What sets us apart is our unique experience in television news—insider knowledge that gives our clients an unparalleled advantage in mastering media interactions. We don’t just teach theory; we instill real-world techniques that ensure executives are at their absolute best during critical media engagements.
Media Training Tailored to Your Needs
PROVEN STRATEGIES DRIVING RESULTS
Return on Investment
- Increased credibility with DoD and NASA buyers, prime contractors
- Reputation as an industry ‘thought leader’
- Strategic approach aligned with media demands, audience engagement
- Established media relationships for future coverage
- Enhanced talent recruitment and employee retention
YOUR STORY POWERED BY INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS, MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS
Receipts Before joining The Boeing Company, Downrange Communications President Jerry Drelling served as an award-winning television news anchor and reporter for two decades, appearing on countless local and national broadcasts.
At Boeing, he took on the toughest assignments, managing media relations for the biggest and most scrutinized defense programs. He’s held senior leadership roles as communications counsel for BDS’s chief operating officer, as head of communications for BDS Supplier Management, and served on the BDS Communications Leadership Team. He also served as the senior executive media trainer for BDS.
Drelling’s unique background as a former journalist-turned-senior Boeing spokesman sealed his reputation as one of the aerospace industry’s leading experts in media relations and crisis communications.
Relationships with the media determine whose stories get told and how they are framed. Coverage isn’t just earned through a great pitch— it’s exchanged through relationships. The strongest media practitioners understand that credibility is the currency reporters value most.
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C-SUITE COMMUNICATIONS EXPERTISE ON DEMAND
Proven We’re ready when you need us. Tier One media relations expertise and executive media training to ensure successful outcomes.
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UP NEXT:
March 23 -26
Washington, D.C. Convention Center
April 13 – 16
Colorado Springs, CO
Hampshire, UK
Downrange at AUSA 2025
Strong media attendance at AUSA in October. Downrange was there to amplify mission-ready messaging, elevating supplier visibility, and fortifying reputational resilience across the defense ecosystem.
Downrange at Air Force Association’s Fall Conference
At AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, MD, Downrange Communications was proud to support some of the nation’s leading supply chain companies. With more than 300 exhibitors in attendance, our team provided hands-on guidance to help participants sharpen their messaging, elevate visibility, and tell their stories with clarity and conviction.
BOOSTING RECOGNITION FOR SUPPLY CHAIN SUCCESS
Your Story, Elevated.
The Blueprint for Industry Leadership.
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At Downrange Communications, we’re redefining the power and potential of aerospace and defense supplier engagement. We champion the “Golden Dome Era,” empowering smaller and emerging suppliers with the tools to command visibility, influence decision-makers, and shape the future of aerospace.
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