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.
Lockheed Martin announced May 8 that it is one of the four contractors on the U.S. Air Force's Hybrid Launch Vehicle (HLV) Studies and Analysis program, which is laying the groundwork for a quick-turnaround rocket with a reusable first stage that the service hopes to introduce by 2018.
Raytheon has taken 25 orders so far in 2006 for the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone, which the company says is laying the foundation for future Web-based information sharing among the services.
NASA and Boeing Phantom Works soon will be wrapping up wind tunnel testing of a 21-foot blended wing body (BWB) aircraft at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in anticipation of beginning flight-testing at Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., later this year.
