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.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski plans to introduce her amendment to add $1 billion in emergency funding to NASA's fiscal 2007 appropriation during a full Senate Appropriations Committee markup hearing July 13.
Major players in the U.S. information technology (IT) industry are warning that they will not be able to sell their commercial products to the Department of Defense if House defense authorization language for fiscal 2007 becomes law.
Mission Specialists Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum completed the second spacewalk of space shuttle mission STS-121 on July 10, successfully restoring re-dundant command capability to the Inter-national Space Station's mobile transporter system. The astronauts replaced a reel assembly for a cable that provides power and data to the mobile transporter, a rail-mounted system that carries the station's 60-foot manipulator arm. The previous cable was inadvertently cut by a safing system in December 2005.
