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.
NASA has stood up its new Program Analysis & Evaluation Office, which Administrator Michael Griffin has established to give him strategic advice as NASA nears critical decision points in its efforts to complete the space station, retire the space shuttle and execute its vision for space exploration. The PA&E office is led by former NASA Deputy Chief of Staff Scott Pace. It will "help the administrator make hopefully better decisions than would otherwise be the case without us," Pace told reporters during a teleconference June 20.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the fiscal 2006 appropriation bill that includes NASA by a vote of 418 to 7 on June 16, fully funding the agency at $16.5 billion and reversing the Bush Administration's proposed cuts to its aeronautics budget. Lawmakers approved the House Appropriations Committee's version of NASA's budget appropriation without any changes, according to a HAC spokesman. The approved $16.5 billion level is $275 million more than was enacted in the FY '05 bill and $15 million above the president's request.
The U.S. Navy's older C4 Trident intercontinental ballistic missiles will be completely phased out by this fall in favor of the D5 Trident, according to Rear Adm. Charles Young, director of strategic systems programs.
