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 is disputing numbers contained in the recent National Academies aeronautics decadal survey report that urges the agency to more evenly balance in-house aeronautics research with work farmed out to industry and academia. The National Research Council (NRC) report says that as of January, NASA "seemed intent" on allocating 93 percent of its aeronautics research funding for in-house use (DAILY, June 7). The National Research Council is part of the National Academies.
Members of the House Science Committee expressed skepticism of the new plan for the scaled-back National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) during a hearing on Capitol Hill June 8, along with frustration over the Pentagon's failure to deliver detailed supporting documents to the committee on time.
The three industry teams vying to build the Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) submitted their bids to the U.S. Army this week. Raytheon and EADS CASA North America jointly submitted two proposals based on the C-295 and CN-235 aircraft. The company says that the C-295 is the only two-engine aircraft in its class that can carry five cargo pallets, providing additional flexibility for intratheater lift.
