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 Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dismissed New S.I.'s protest of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) NextView contract decision on the grounds that the protest was not filed quickly enough.
The Pentagon's recently established Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC) is focusing much of its attention on accelerating the purchase of items designed to detect or counteract improvised explosive devices (IEDs), according to JRAC Director Robert Buhrkuhl. "We've been working a lot of key things in the classified area on the IED Task Force," Buhrkuhl told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon Nov. 24. The task force requested the JRAC's participation, and the office is assisting with nine classified counter-IED programs.
Following its budget victory on Capitol Hill, NASA must turn its attention to following through on President Bush's goals for space exploration, according to Administrator Sean O'Keefe. Congress on Nov. 20 approved a fiscal year 2005 NASA budget of nearly $16.2 billion, 5% more than the agency's FY '04 total (DAILY, Nov. 23). "Any residual question about whether or not there is support necessary to continue on, I think, has been resolved," O'Keefe said during an address to NASA employees Nov. 23. "That said, it is now incumbent upon us to perform."
