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.
The U.S. Air Force is rethinking the future of its space surveillance network as it tries to balance the need to replace aging ground sensors against the costs of the recently restructured Space-Based Surveillance System program. "If you look at all the [ground] systems that we are maintaining today, and then add SBSS to this constellation of capability . . . we can't afford it all," says Col. Gary Henry, system group director for space situational awareness at the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) bid goodbye to members of the Washington space community at a Space Transportation Association breakfast on Capitol Hill May 11, as he prepares to depart Congress next month. "One of the things I'm going to miss most about serving in the House, I think, is the opportunity to represent so many members of the American space community," said DeLay, whose district includes Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the tri-agency committee charged with overseeing the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) were not hands-on enough and ignored signs that the program was spiraling out of control, according to the Commerce Department's inspector general.
