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 formal merger of Boeing's space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) engineering workforces is set to go through Oct. 1, marking a major step in the company's effort to begin shifting personnel from legacy human spaceflight programs over to new efforts such as the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and Ares Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV).
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has narrowed the focus of its counter-IED work to technologies that stop the devices before they are even placed in the ground, according to Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. William Landay. Last year ONR embarked on a broad effort to counter improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which remain the number one cause of U.S. casualties overseas. Navy officials likened the effort to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb (DAILY, July 29, 2005).
The planned prototype demonstration flight for the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) High Altitude Airship (HAA) has slipped at least another year to 2010, while prime contractor Lockheed Martin lobbies Congress to stave off planned fiscal 2007 budget cuts that are likely to push the demo back even further.
