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.
SPACE NET: Engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have transmitted dozens of space images to and from the Epoxi spacecraft, marking what the agency calls the first step in creating “an interplanetary Internet.” The team used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN), which sends information using a method that differs from the normal Internet’s TCP/IP. Engineers began a series of DTN demonstrations in October.
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition organization has named two former Clinton administration Defense Department officials to head the Obama Pentagon agency review team. On Nov. 12, the Obama transition team tapped John P. White, chair of the Middle East Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Michele A. Flournoy, president and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank.
CSAR REPORT: According to Bloomberg news service, the Pentagon Inspector General’s draft report on the U.S. Air Force’s Combat, Search and Rescue helicopter (CSAR-X) replacement program says the service didn’t break rules when it changed key requirements for the $15 billion effort. The nine-page draft report says the Air Force stayed within acquisition guidelines when it changed the aircraft’s payload, cabin space, fuel range and mission readiness requirements, Bloomberg says.
