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 a nod to both the Apollo program and to Mars as an eventual destination for astronauts, NASA has named its new shuttle-derived orbital rockets the Ares 1 and Ares 5. Ares, the Greek name for Mars, "connects to our vision of going to the moon, Mars and beyond," Associate Administrator for Exploration Scott Horowitz said during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center June 30. "We didn't name it after the [Greek] god of war. That's not our intent."
The U.S. Navy has cleared the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet's Raytheon-built APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar to enter its operational evaluation (OPEVAL), the company announced June 30.
An analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations told House lawmakers June 29 that U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is not organized to achieve long-term success in the war on terrorism due to its overemphasis on "SWAT-style raids" at the expense of less glamorous, but no less important, unconventional warfare.
