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.
U.S. soldiers overseas need more robots to assist them with scouting, explosive ordnance disposal and identifying improvised explosive devices, according to Col. Bruce Jette (USA-Ret.), former program manager of the Army's Rapid Equipping Force. "Make more robots," Jette told members of industry during the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement's Military Robotics conference in Washington April 19. "We want lots of robots, but we've got to be able to afford them."
NASA will begin an internal review on the possibility of reinstating the fifth space shuttle servicing mission (SM4) to the Hubble Space Telescope immediately after the space shuttle completes its return to flight mission, according to Administrator Michael Griffin.
The mission team for NASA's Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous technology hopes to finish validating its hardware through ground testing and analysis, following an on-orbit anomaly that ended the mission prematurely on the evening of April 15.
