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 U.S. Army's networked Stryker Brigade Combat Teams are exemplifying the benefits of network-centric operations both during exercises and actual deployments in Iraq, according to John Garstka, assistant director for concepts and operations at the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation.
The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) will begin beta testing its information standards in the coming months and ensuring compatibility with the network-centric architectures already being developed by the military services.
NASA and the International Space Station (ISS) partners have agreed on a plan to complete the orbital facility by 2010 and accommodate all the hardware modules built by the international partner countries that have yet to be launched. The new plan will finish the station "with the fewest number of flights we can," NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said during a press conference following the ISS Heads of Agency (HOA) meeting in Montreal Jan. 26. "We have developed a dynamic plan to achieve that goal."
