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.
In January Microsoft plans to release the first version of Microsoft ESP - a software package allowing developers to create their own immersive 3-D flight simulations that the company hopes will eventually become the standard package with which military, government and commercial users will develop training programs.
Apollo 9 astronaut Russell "Rusty" Schweickart criticized NASA's report to Congress on its search for potentially dangerous near-Earth objects (NEO) during testimony before a House Science subcommittee last week, and renewed his call for the U.S. government to assign responsibility for developing NEO deflection plans.
NASA officials told House lawmakers on Capitol Hill Nov. 8 that the agency's effort to find potentially dangerous asteroids must be expanded if it is to meet the deadlines set out in NASA's 2005 authorizing legislation.
