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 Commerce Department's Office of Space Commercialization (OSC) is planning an initiative to try to entice businesses that have not traditionally been part of the space industry to get involved. "We are going to do a number of outreach activities, both with ... OSC as lead, and also co-chairing with other government agencies, where we want to get to the nontraditional space industry," OSC Director Ed Morris told The DAILY. Examples of powerful nontraditional players could be Exxon Mobil or Ford Motor Co., Morris said.
Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale says that NASA's ability to up the pace of shuttle flights to the rate necessary for completing the International Space Station by 2010 will be contingent not on orbiter turnaround but on how quickly it can analyze in-flight anomalies.
NASA is disputing numbers contained in the recent National Academies aeronautics decadal survey report that urges the agency to more evenly balance in-house aeronautics research with work farmed out to industry and academia. The National Research Council (NRC) report says that as of January, NASA "seemed intent" on allocating 93 percent of its aeronautics research funding for in-house use (DAILY, June 7). The National Research Council is part of the National Academies.
