flight-ready: visibility strategies for aerospace suppliers who keep missions moving
Tier One executive media training, trusted media relationships — your mission amplified
Shape Your Future with Downrange
Tier One storytelling. Supplier-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.
Why Downrange?
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.
Across media tours and industry‑defining trade shows, we’ve directed media relations for Boeing’s most scrutinized programs: the Space Launch System, CST‑100 Starliner, KC‑46 tanker, C‑17 Globemaster III, V‑22 Osprey, and AH‑64 Apache—programs central to national security and global aerospace leadership.
Over nearly two decades at Boeing, Drelling led communications for the BDS chief operating officer and for the Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Quality, and Safety teams—roles that placed him at the heart of Boeing’s operational leadership and enterprise‑wide decision‑making.
Elevating Supply Chain Companies: We turn your mission into momentum.
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 impact-focused 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.
What sets us apart is our vast experience in television news— techniques that deliver results, and insider knowledge that gives our clients an edge in mastering media interactions.
PROVEN STRATEGIES DRIVE RESULTS
Smart Return on Investment
- Enhanced credibility with DoD and NASA buyers, prime contractors
- Tier One Media Access
- Strategic Visibility
- Enhanced talent recruitment and employee retention
- Executive Readiness
GIVING SUPPLIERS THE VISIBILITY ADVANTAGE TO STAND OUT, INFLUENCE DECISIONS, AND WIN
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 network 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.
Looking Downrange:
Hampshire, UK
Tinker & the Primes Defense Supplier Conference
August 4-6, Midwest City, OK
AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2026
September 14-16
National Harbor, MD
AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition
October 12-14
Washington, D.C.
American Aerospace & Defense Summit 2026
December 3-4, Glendale, AZ
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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