Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
NASA has nearly finished a study on the feasibility of accelerating the crew transport portion of its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, which for now remains focused exclusively on cargo. During testimony April 3 to the House Science subcommittee on space and aeronautics, Richard Gilbrech, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration, said the agency would be happy to share the results of the study with lawmakers as soon as it is completed. “We’re in the final stages of vetting that,” he said.
Lockheed Martin announced April 2 that the third VH-71 helicopter built for the Presidential Helicopter program, Test Vehicle 3 (TV-3), has arrived in the U.S. and will be the first VH-71 to undergo final assembly at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, N.Y. The Navy-owned TV-3 was transported aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane from AgustaWestland’s facility in Yeovil, England, to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., before flying to Owego.
Northrop Grumman has proposed a demonstration to the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) in which U.S. military users would be able to tap Israel’s new TecSar/Polaris 1 imaging radar satellite for a period this summer.
