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 picked the C-27J for the Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) program, despite its higher cost, because of concerns about the C-295's ability to meet certain performance requirements, according to the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) decision rejecting Raytheon's bid protest.
The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program expects to finally award the long-delayed Airborne Maritime Fixed (AMF) portion of the program before the end of this year. JTRS is developing a family of interoperable, software-defined radios based on open architectures and capable of mobile ad hoc networking on the battlefield. The AMF portion will produce a radio for wide-body aircraft, a maritime version for ships and a version for fixed shore sites.
The STS-120 astronaut crew led by U.S. Air Force Col. (ret.) Pam Melroy will be at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) this week for launch pad safety training and a countdown dress rehearsal Oct. 10 with the crew inside shuttle Discovery on Pad 39A. Launch Control Center technicians will count down the unfueled vehicle as planned for its launch at 11:38 a.m. EDT Oct. 23. The simulation will end with a practice pad abort, when the crew must exit the vehicle quickly and prepare to descend from the top of the massive launch pad in slide wire baskets.
