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.
Senate lawmakers questioned NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on April 26 about unspent funds at the agency left over from previous fiscal years, which Griffin said were all slated to be spent on congressionally approved projects.
The U.S. space industry charges too much for the services it provides and must learn to do more with less, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said during a speech in Washington April 25. "We, the country, don't get enough back for what we spend" on space, Griffin told attendees of the Inside Aerospace symposium sponsored by the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Space Foundation. "That means we don't get enough product for the amount of people's time invested in these activities. We have too many people doing every job we do."
The U.S. government plans to launch the standalone replacement satellite for Landsat by 2009 or 2010, while offering incentives to industry that might get the spacecraft up even sooner and reduce the chance of a data gap, according to an official with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). "The [request for proposals] is scheduled to be released in the third quarter of calendar year 2006," said OSTP's Gene Whitney during the Inside Aerospace symposium in Washington April 25. "There are incentives being offered for early launch."
