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.
NASA's operating plan for fiscal 2007, still evolving as the agency struggles to accommodate a $528.1 million cut to its requested amount, kills a proposed robotic lunar lander as expected, and slips the initial operational capability of its planned Orion/Ares I follow-on to the space shuttle. But it adds funds to two high-profile (and high-cost) space science programs - the Mars Science Laboratory and the James Webb Space Telescope - to keep them on schedule for their planned launch dates in 2009 and 2013, respectively.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), says he feels a sense of "urgency" in establishing the proposed Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) site in Europe, given the looming threat of Iran's missile program.
Exostar's Export Control Working Group is attempting to infuse greater automation into its customers' collaborative business tools to help them avoid export control violations. Exostar hosts a number of secure collaborative computer applications through which its 34,000 aerospace and defense clients do business and share information, much of which is subject to U.S. State Department restrictions.
