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 Army's Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) is conducting experiments in support of the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) effort in which manned Stryker vehicles work together with unmanned ground and air vehicles in simulated missions.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe is citing the National Academies' recent report on the Hubble Space Telescope to justify NASA's decision to cut funding for Hubble servicing, saying the agency's favored robotic servicing mission became too difficult to support in light of the panel's findings. Little faith In their December final report, panel members expressed little faith in NASA's ability to pull off the challenging robotic mission in time to save Hubble, recommending instead that the agency mount another shuttle servicing mission.
NASA's fiscal year 2006 budget request would boost funding for space exploration to $3.165 billion from $2.684 billion in FY '05, while putting the agency's aeronautics budget on a fairly steady decline through FY '10. The agency's exploration systems area includes all the technologies NASA is developing to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 and pave the way for a human Mars landing. By FY '10, its annual budget is slated to rise to $5.125 billion.
