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 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army plan to address difficult issues associated with the command and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the second phase of the Heterogeneous Unmanned Reconnaissance Team (HURT) program, according to agency and industry officials.
Thwarted by unusually strong ocean currents at its launch site in the equatorial ocean, Sea Launch has decided to postpone the Thuraya-3 launch campaign, and its command ship and Odyssey launch platform are on their way home. Driven by El Nina, the winds and currents at the site "made it difficult for the platform to stay in position," Sea Launch spokeswoman Paula Korn said. "We were using up a lot of fuel just staying in place."
Northrop Grumman, SAIC and others already have begun developing their own tailored simulations based on Microsoft's ESP simulation toolkit, which the software giant plans to formally release to the market in January. Based on gaming technology, ESP is a software package allowing developers to create their own immersive 3-D simulations. Microsoft hopes ESP will eventually become the standard package with which military, government and commercial users will develop training and decision-support programs (DAILY, Nov. 15).
