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 strike by Boeing workers that has put Delta rocket launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral on hold has entered its second week with no new negotiations between the parties currently planned. Roughly half of Boeing's Delta work force went on strike just after midnight on Nov. 2, following the recent expiration of a three-year contract between the company and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 725. Best offer
The Defense Department's future TacSat small satellites still are awaiting a decision from the Air Force about how they will be launched, although an answer is expected shortly, according to Lloyd Feldman, assistant director of the Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation.
The Air Force has not delayed the latest round of launch awards in its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle in response to ongoing antitrust deliberations on the United Launch Alliance venture or a pending lawsuit seeking to stop the merger, according to the Space and Missile Systems Center. The so-called "Buy 3" EELV awards are expected to divide 23 launches through the end of the decade evenly between Boeing's Delta IV and Lockheed Martin's Atlas V rockets.
