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.
Defense appropriations subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) pressed Defense Department budget officials for more details on their fiscal 2007 budget request during a hearing in Washington on March 7, predicting that without such detail passage of the department's spending bill will be a challenge.
The Pentagon on March 7 released the 26-page executive summary from The RAND Corp.'s 3,000-page classified tanker capitalization study, which recommends replacing the aging KC-135 fleet with a derivative of existing commercial jetliners.
iRobot has developed a payload for its PackBot robot that will fire a slug of water at an improvised explosive device (IED) to render it inert, according to iRobot Executive Vice President and General Manager Joseph Dyer. Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel deployed in Iraq are expressing increasing interest in systems that are capable of rendering IEDs inert without detonating them, to preserve forensic evidence that might lead back to the bomb-maker (DAILY, July 5, 2005).
