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 Defense Department has delivered a classified report to Congress on the threat to the U.S. posed by an electromagnetic pulse, more than a year after members of a civil commission on EMP concluded that such an event could do trillions of dollars of damage to the country's critical infrastructure.
Establishing safety and the perception of safety among members of the public will be crucial to the growth and success of the space tourism industry, according to a panel of former astronauts and space entrepreneurs. Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, said that in his experience roughly half the people in a given room say they are willing to take a suborbital space flight for $50,000 or less.
Carl O'Berry, the former executive chairman of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, said he is pleased with the progress the group has made in its first year of operations. Formally stood up in September of 2004, the NCOIC began as a group of 28 companies dedicated to creating industry standards and practices that will make their products interoperable and enable network-centric operations.
