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 Bush administration is requesting $1.726 billion in fiscal 2007 to reduce the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, which is a 6.9 percent increase over the FY '06 request. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget request includes $638 million for Fissile Material Disposition, $551 million of which will go toward disposing of U.S. and Russian plutonium, and $87 million of which will be used to dispose of U.S. highly enriched uranium.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin defended NASA's fiscal 2007 science budget on Capitol Hill Feb. 16, saying that what some science stakeholders characterize as "cuts" are actually just unavoidable delays that follow years of robust growth in agency science funding. NASA's FY '07 budget proposes to reduce science programs at NASA by $3.1 billion through FY '10 as compared to projections in the FY '06 budget, to fund pressing human space flight efforts.
The Defense Department's fiscal 2007 budget request for research and development (R&D) is $74 billion, according to White House Science Adviser John Marburger, which is more than half of the government's entire R&D request for the year.
