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.
Senate lawmakers pressed high-level NASA witnesses during a Capitol Hill hearing March 15, skeptical that the agency is taking its most recent authorization bill seriously. “Five months have passed since the law’s passage, and we’re still waiting for signs that the agency will comply,” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said at the outset of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee hearing.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is expected to slip 12-14 months as a result of Congress’ failure to pass new appropriations for the agency for fiscal 2011. JPSS is the civil follow-on to the canceled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (Npoess), on which NOAA was partnered with the U.S. Air Force and NASA. JPSS had been targeting a first launch in 2014.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is expected to slip 12-14 months as a result of Congress’s failure to pass new appropriations for fiscal 2011.
