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 Federal Trade Commission has issued a second request for information to Lockheed Martin and Boeing about their proposed United Launch Alliance merger. The companies believe the RFI is intended to give the FTC more time to consider the complex merger proposal and make an antitrust ruling. The companies already resubmitted their filing on ULA last month to give the FTC an additional 30 days, which ran out on Oct. 24.
The Government Accountability Office's opinion of the Air Force's Transformational Satellite program has improved since its last assessment of TSAT earlier this year, although GAO remains concerned about possible integration challenges. "No fundamental discoveries or breakthroughs" are required for TSAT, GAO said in briefing materials obtained by The DAILY, "but the level of difficulty in integrating these technologies is an unknown."
The Defense Department has delivered a classified report to Congress on the threat to the U.S. posed by an electromagnetic pulse, more than a year after members of a civil commission on EMP concluded that such an event could do trillions of dollars of damage to the country's critical infrastructure.
