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.
Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena say they're both anxious and confident as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) nears the most dangerous part of its mission on March 10 - successfully entering orbit around the red planet.
Defense appropriations subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) pressed Defense Department budget officials for more details on their fiscal 2007 budget request during a hearing in Washington on March 7, predicting that without such detail passage of the department's spending bill will be a challenge.
The Pentagon on March 7 released the 26-page executive summary from The RAND Corp.'s 3,000-page classified tanker capitalization study, which recommends replacing the aging KC-135 fleet with a derivative of existing commercial jetliners.
