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 says it will continue to support its Centennial Challenges prize program, despite the fact that Congress may be on the brink of denying funding to the effort for the second year in a row. Senate appropriators have voted to deny the program's $10 million fiscal 2007 budget request, although the Senate and House have yet to agree on a final FY '07 NASA budget (DAILY, Nov. 29).
U.S. Air Force Undersecretary Ronald Sega says he expects continued bipartisan support for military space programs following the Democratic takeover of Congress in January. "From a space perspective, in the committees that I have testified in front of and the staffers I have interacted with, there ... has not been a partisan nature to discussions," Sega said during a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington Nov. 29. "We're trying to do the right thing, and working with them."
B-2 bomber prime contractor North-rop Grumman says that based on the in-formation it is gleaning from the U.S. Air Force, the service's next-generation long-range strike (NGLRS) platform will complement the B-2, but not replace it when it enters service around 2018-2020.
