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 its fiscal 2006 appropriations legislation, Congress is ordering NASA to submit two reports early next year on the future of unmanned aerial vehicles. The first request appears to confirm NASA's rumored plans to withdraw from the Access Five UAV airspace initiative in FY '07 (DAILY, Sept. 29).
Northrop Grumman Chairman and CEO Ronald Sugar stressed the national importance of space exploration during a speech to the press in Washington Nov. 9, calling it crucial to future U.S. technology pre-eminence.
The strike by Boeing workers that has put Delta rocket launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral on hold has entered its second week with no new negotiations between the parties currently planned. Roughly half of Boeing's Delta work force went on strike just after midnight on Nov. 2, following the recent expiration of a three-year contract between the company and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 725. Best offer
