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 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.
Boeing's Virtual Warfare Center in St. Louis is opening in a new, larger facility May 9 that will allow it to increase the number of entities it can simulate by an order of magnitude, according to Guy Higgins, Boeing's vice president in charge of Analysis, Modeling and Simulation. "We're standing up an ability to extensively broaden the scope of the conflict that we can simulate, from notionally 100 entities in the battlespace to a couple thousand," Higgins told The DAILY. LVC integration
In his first address to NASA employees, Mike Griffin said that he would try to strike a balance between directed work and competition at NASA's field centers during his tenure as the agency's 11th administrator. "A certain amount of competition is healthy for the federal centers to engage in," Griffin said April 14. "I will be striving for an appropriate balance between a certain amount of directed work and a certain amount of competition at the margins."
