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.
Members of the House Science Committee expressed skepticism of the new plan for the scaled-back National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) during a hearing on Capitol Hill June 8, along with frustration over the Pentagon's failure to deliver detailed supporting documents to the committee on time.
A scientist and a former astronaut told a Senate panel June 6 that the medical consequences of long-duration space travel are not well understood and proposed cuts to NASA's life science budget will leave crucial questions unanswered as the agency tries to send people back to the moon and on to Mars. "Simply put, the biological risks associated with exploration-class spaceflight are far from being mitigated," said James Pawelczyk, associate professor of physiology and kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University.
The three industry teams vying to build the Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) submitted their bids to the U.S. Army this week. Raytheon and EADS CASA North America jointly submitted two proposals based on the C-295 and CN-235 aircraft. The company says that the C-295 is the only two-engine aircraft in its class that can carry five cargo pallets, providing additional flexibility for intratheater lift.
