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.
The iRobot RedOwl robot prototype, which uses acoustic signatures to pinpoint the location of snipers, is under evaluation by the U.S. Army at Ft. Benning, Ga., as part of the ongoing Air Assault Expeditionary Force Experiment. A modified version of iRobot's PackBot, the RedOwl project includes participation by Boston University and Insight Technologies of New Hampshire, which provides tactical lighting and laser systems to U.S. Special Operations Command.
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) plans to recommend that NASA adopt a new method of categorizing and distributing information during flight safety reviews that will give more latitude to lower-level managers to solve simpler problems on their own, while leaving senior managers free to focus on larger, thornier issues.
The U.S. government's approval of Lockheed Martin and Boeing's United Launch Alliance (ULA) came through on the basis of its anticipated benefits to national security, despite the expectation that it will damage competition and yield little or no savings to the government in the long run, according to documents released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
